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Any objection to moving this page to Adivasi? QuartierLatin1968 01:18, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Parsi tribal status followup

Although absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, I have removed the statement that Parsis have tribal status from both Parsi and Adivasi entries since I can't verify this (either way).

Although I originally added the statement (to Parsi) that Parsis gained tribal status in 2004, I am now of the opinion that this was incorrect. Parsiana (the Parsi community monthly), had absolutely nothing on the subject in 2004, and given how vocal Parsis can become on the subject of receiving (or not) special privileges, I'm sure that the subject would have been covered in depth if it were true.

Fullstop 12:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure that Parsi community do not belong to the category of adivasis and the scheduled tribes/ scheduled castes. --Bhadani 13:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sanskrit?

Does the word adivasi come from the Sanskrit language? 18:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Why do you not respond? 09:28, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

The talk pages are specifically for discussing the article, not for general discussion.

Adivasi = Adi (original) + Vasi (inhabitant)

Hence the words roughly in English is aboriginal, although there is no negative connotation.

Also Adi and Vasi are Sanskrit words

SDas 23:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DISCUSS: Proposing MERGER of Adivasis of Orissa into Adivasi

These articles are duplicative and need to be combined.OfficeGirl 06:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adivasi is a pan India term for a 'Tribal person', whereas the other article is only specific of the adivasis from the Indian state of Orissa, so merging the two articles would be disasterous, only the duplicative material needs to be separated.

Adivasi/Janjati in Nepal

In Nepal there are many indigenous peoples such as Tharu, Magar and Kham, Gurung, Tamang, Rai and Limbu who are called Adivasi (or Adibasi) and Janjati. Their situation is the same as India's Adivasis, except there might be small differences in government policy toward them. I propose that they be added to this article. LADave (talk) 18:37, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

adivasi or Adivasi

Adivasi is more correct,they are aboriginal communities,having religion Aadim dharma..with Mahadeva/Lord Shiva as Supreme God.This article is clearly a work in progress, and several issues above relate to whether the term is general or specific. At the moment we use 'adivasi' in the early 'Connotations ..' section, and later often capitalise 'Adivasi' especially when referring to ST classification.

In keeping with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters), lower case should be used unless there is a definitive case (sic) for capitalising.

In any case (doh, there we go again) this article should move rapidly towards using one or the other consistently, or else explicitly explain that there are two uses of the term, one general and one specific, captialised accordingly. Earthlyreason (talk) 12:43, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[Deleted copyright material]..Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigbrothersorder (talk • contribs) 08:26, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is against Wikipedia policy (and is illegal) to lift copyrighted material at this scale - so I am deleting it. You could simply have brought in a couple of lines and a set of links rather than do this. Also, you didn't acknowledge the actual authors of this material, which isn't okay in any respect. You stole (basically) material from http://www.aitpn.org/IRQ/Vol-III/issue_4/story09.html, http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/adivasi.htm and other sources. You are also in violation of Wikipedia talk guidelines (WP:SOAP). Please don't do this. Many of these exact issues inform the article, except that the article is actually richer and covers them in even more detail. --Hunnjazal (talk) 12:08, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

Several paragraphs have been copied verbatim, unattributed, from "James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden, editors. India: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995", url: http://countrystudies.us/india/70.htm.

Per WP:PD use is allowed.

Per WP:PLAG it must be properly attributed, which it is not currently. JanetteDoe (talk) 19:04, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Adivasi

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Adivasi's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "biomedcentral.com":

From Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia: Thanseem, Ismail; Thangaraj, Kumarasamy; Chaubey, Gyaneshwer; Singh, Vijay; Bhaskar, Lakkakula VKS; Reddy, B Mohan; Reddy, Alla G; Singh, Lalji (2006). "Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: Inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA". BMC Genetics. 7: 42. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-7-42. PMC 1569435. PMID 16893451.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
From Gujarati people: "Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans". Biomedcentral.com. Retrieved 9 December 2011.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:38, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Who coined the term?

Please provide a source citing who coined the term Adivasi and what the reasoning was at the time. I've heard it was A.V. Thakkar... 95.224.3.198 (talk) 20:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC) R.E.D.[reply]

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Adivasi categories

Tha article is saying that "Adivasi can be categorised into three grouping i.e. Austro-Asiatic, Caucasoid and Sino-Tibetan", but what's the point of mixing hypothetical language families with races? Also, where are the Australoids who are possibly the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent? Barbar03 (talk) 15:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]