Gadabas

Gadabas

The Gadabas are one of the Scheduled Tribes of India. They live primarily in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.

There are approximately 67,000 Gadabas. They are involved in both slash and burn and plow cultivation. They live in permanent villages.

They are well known for their tribal dance, the Dhimsa.

They practice Shamanistic rituals.

The Gadabas speak an Austroasiatic language. It is known as the Gutob language.

Since the early 1980s the Gadabas have largely been displaced from their villages by the building of hydro-electrict dams and the resulting lakes.

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