{"id":328233,"date":"2025-02-28T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=328233"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:02:09","slug":"cholanaikkan-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cholanaikkan-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholanaikkan Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The innovative initiative by <strong data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"85\">Samagra Shiksha Kerala (SSK)<\/strong> to provide education to a <strong data-start=\"112\" data-end=\"138\">bed-ridden tribal girl<\/strong> from the <strong data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"170\">Cholanaikkan tribe<\/strong> in Malappuram, Kerala, has made headlines.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Cholanaikkan Tribe<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Cholanaikkan<\/strong> are a <strong>particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG)<\/strong> living in the forests of <strong>Kerala, India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are primarily found in the <strong>Nilambur forests of Malappuram district<\/strong> and are considered one of the last remaining <strong>hunter-gatherer tribes<\/strong> in South India.<\/li>\n<li>They traditionally<strong> live in rock shelters and caves<\/strong> called<strong> Kallu Arais.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They rely on <strong>hunting, and gathering honey, tubers, and wild fruits for sustenance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The community speaks a distinct Dravidian language called Cholanaikkan.<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>minimal contact with the outside world<\/strong> and depend heavily on forest resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The innovative initiative by Samagra Shiksha Kerala (SSK) to provide education to a bed-ridden tribal girl from the Cholanaikkan tribe in Malappuram, Kerala, has made headlines. About Cholanaikkan Tribe The Cholanaikkan are a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) living in the forests of Kerala, India. They are primarily found in the Nilambur forests of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cholanaikkan-tribe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cholanaikkan Tribe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-328233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}