Recently, a 19-year-old student cracked the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), who is set to become the first member of the Bonda tribal community.
About Bonda Tribe:
The Bondas are exclusively found in Malkangiri district of Odisha and are mostly concentrated in Khairaput block of the district.
It is a particularly vulnerable tribal group and one of the oldest tribes of India.
They are also known as Bondo, Bondas, Bonda Paraja, and Bhonda.
They belong to the Austro-Asiatic racial stock and speak Remo-an Austro-Asiatic dialect.
The Bondas are divided into two groups because of their distinct cultural practices:
The Lower Bondas, who live in the Malkangiri district in south Odisha and border Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and
The Upper Bondas, who live in the remote villages of the district’s hilly terrain.
They have an interesting dressing style – ladies are semi clad and wear different sorts of rings and pieces of jewelry around their bodies.
Occupation: They are primarily farmers, but they also hunt, gather forest products, and perform labor.
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