What is it about?
Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) are those tribal groups whose subsistence is still reliant on foraging for foodstuff and who practice primitive means of agriculture and usually have zero or negative population growth rate or declining population. Socioeconomically, PVTGs live in impoverished conditions and are also vulnerable to ill health. One of such groups is the Totos, an earliest ethnic group to have settled exclusively at Totopara in the forested foothills of the Himalayas in Alipurduar District of West Bengal, India, considered endangered because of their declining population growth.
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Why is it important?
These indigenous people retain exciting ancientness having many of their unique traditional customs, beliefs and practices, cultural traits, socioeconomic and political organizations, and way of life preserved owing to their isolation in a remote and difficult terrain distinct from the dominant societies. This piece explores their unique sociocultural heritage, social conditions, their “struggle for existence,” and also the changes taking place in their age-old traditional way of life due to the impacts of modernization, urbanization, and industrialization.
Perspectives
This study is meant to shed light on a sociocultural group that is a complementary constituent of the Indian pluralistic social mosaic and has particular implications for research, policy, and practice in this precedence arena. In order to produce this article, both the primary and secondary sources of data have been consulted.
Dr. Md. Intekhab Hossain
Prabhat Kumar College
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This page is a summary of: The Toto, a PVTG of the Himalayan Foothill, Is at Risk of Decline, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_113-1.
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The Toto, a PVTG of the Himalayan Foothill, Is at Risk of Decline
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Hossain, M.I. (2022). The Toto, a PVTG of the Himalayan Foothill, Is at Risk of Decline. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Nadesan, V., Przeperski, J., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_113-1
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