Mahali

Mahali is an indigenous community of India, Nepal and Bangladesh. It is an indigenous of the state of West Bengal and Odisha.[1] They mostly reside in areas adjoining to Santhal Parganas in Odisha and West Bengal. Mahali people forms a different tribe which is clubbed together with the Munda tribe.[1] They basically speak Mahali language, but in some place they differentiate Mahali language from Mahali. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Constitution (Scheduled tribes) Order, 1950" (PDF). Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. pp. 180, 182. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
  2. ↑ "Orissa's new name is Odisha". The Times Of India. 2011-03-24.


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