what is the adivasi
Adivasi is an umbrella term for a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia. Adivasi make up 8.6% of India 's population or 104 million according to the 2011 census and 40% of Nepalese population.They comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India and Nepal.The same term Adivasi is used for the ethnic minorities of Bangladesh, the native Madhesi people of Madhesh region of Nepal and also to the native Vedda people of Sri Lanka (Sinhalese: à¶à¶¯à· à·à·à·).and dispossession and subjugation by British and zamindar interests resulted in a number of adivasi revolts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, such as the Santal hul (or Santhal rebellion) of 1855â56.