Paper I · 14 Society, Culture, Heritage, Arts & Literature of Telangana · 14.2 Tribes of Telangana
14.2.1 Tribes of Telangana: Gonds, Koyas, Lambadas, Chenchus, Kolams and others, with their areas and customs
Telangana's 31.78 lakh Scheduled Tribes (9.08%, Census 2011) belong to 32 notified communities, from the Lambadas (the largest) spread across the state to the Gonds and Kolams of the Adilabad hills, the Koyas of the Godavari valley and the Chenchus of the Nallamala forest, with four Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups and four ITDAs.
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Key terms
- Scheduled Tribes
- Article 342
- Fifth Schedule
- Scheduled Areas
- PESA 1996
- Forest Rights Act 2006
- 1/70 Regulation
- Samatha judgment 1997
- Census 2011 ST population
- 32 ST communities
- PVTG
- Chenchu
- Kolam
- Thoti
- Konda Reddi
- ITDA
- Utnoor
- Eturnagaram
- Bhadrachalam
- Mannanur
- Lambada
- Banjara
- Sugali
- tanda
- Teej
- Sevalal
- Koya
- Koitur
- Sammakka Saralamma
- Kommu Koya
- Gond
- Raj Gond
- Gondi
- Persa Pen
- Nagoba
- Keslapur
- Mesram
- Dandari
- Gussadi
- Pardhan
- Thoti
- Naikpod
- Andh
- Yerukula
- Nallamala
- Amrabad
- Saleshwaram
- podu
- Haimendorf
- Kumram Bheem
- Indravelli 1981
- G.O. 33
- Sammakka Sarakka Central Tribal University
- Dokra
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