{"id":348544,"date":"2025-10-23T17:40:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=348544"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:16:50","slug":"kolam-tribekolam-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kolam-tribekolam-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolam Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>In Telangana\u2019s Adilabad district, the Green India Challenge launched a pilot bamboo plantation to help restore the livelihoods of Kolam tribal communities.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kolam Tribe<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_348546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348546\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-348546\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-MoTA.jpg?resize=405%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-MoTA.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-MoTA.jpg?resize=1024%2C530&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-MoTA.jpg?resize=768%2C397&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-MoTA.jpg?w=1202&amp;ssl=1 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-348546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; MoTA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>They are also called <strong>Kolamboli, Kulme, or Kolmi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>They mainly live in <strong>Madhya Pradesh<\/strong> and parts of <strong>Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type vulnerability: <\/strong>They are recognized as a <strong>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG)<\/strong> and are also listed as a <strong>Scheduled Tribe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Livelihood<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>They depend on <strong>agriculture, forest work, and food gathering<\/strong>, and also engage in hunting, animal husbandry, making wooden articles, wage labour, and shifting cultivation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Structure<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Their society is <strong>patrilineal and divided into exogamous clans.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>M<\/strong><strong>arriages<\/strong> within the <strong>same clan are not allowe<\/strong>d, and clan names are used as surnames.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Villages, called <\/strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>pod,<\/strong>\u201d are well <strong>planned with a Chavdi at the centre <\/strong>and a village goddess in front.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>council of village<\/strong> family chiefs, chosen <strong>for five years,<\/strong> maintains social order.<\/li>\n<li>There is a <strong>rising trend toward nuclear families, <\/strong>with dowry practices and increasing instances of bride price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language used: <\/strong>They speak <strong>Kolami (a Dravidian language)<\/strong> and write in Devanagari; many also speak Marathi, Telugu, or Gondi.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cultural beliefs: <\/strong>They follow <strong>animism and nature worship<\/strong> alongside <strong>Hindu practices<\/strong>, revering ancestors and deities such as Renuka, Jaitur, Maroti, Bhairum, SanSurayak, and Jelayak.\n<ul>\n<li>Some of them also consider themselves as the descendants of Pandavas of <strong>Mahabharata<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rituals <\/strong><strong>and festival celebrations: <\/strong>The Kolam people celebrate different rituals that include <strong>Matya or Churaghali, Bai-Baki, Sati, Jaitur Pooja, Waghai Pooja, Chait, Mohdombari, Bhimayak, Korod, Morang Dev pooja<\/strong> etc.\n<ul>\n<li>Their festivals include Kargul, <strong>Dussehra<\/strong>, Nag Panchami, Akharpakha, Atari, Pola, Fulzadni, <strong>Holi<\/strong>, <strong>Diwali<\/strong>, Aaichi, Pettadiyam, Metti-Diyam etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Art<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Kolam women create intricate geometric floor designs known as \u201c<strong>adivasi kolam,\u201d <\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It is expressive floor art and a way of welcoming Goddess Lakshmi by putting them at the house&#8217;s entrance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: In Telangana\u2019s Adilabad district, the Green India Challenge launched a pilot bamboo plantation to help restore the livelihoods of Kolam tribal communities. About Kolam Tribe They are also called Kolamboli, Kulme, or Kolmi. Location: They mainly live in Madhya Pradesh and parts of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. Type vulnerability: They are recognized as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kolam-tribekolam-tribe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kolam Tribe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-348544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348544","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\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}