A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN KURICHYA AND PANIYA TRIBE

Abstract

Traditionally, the term ‘tribe has been used for those groups of human beings whose place of residence is situated in remote areas like hills, forests, coasts and islands and whose style of life is quite different from the present day civilized men. India is one of the countries having a large concentration of tribal population. In this, it has second rank in the world.In this article,it is decided to make a comparison between the Kurichya tribe, the top most upper class community among tribals and Paniya- the lower class tribal group among them.