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Baiga Tribe: Culture and Lifestyle

The Baiga tribe lives in the forests of Madhya Pradesh, India. Numbering around 131,425 people, they traditionally spoke an Austro-Asiatic language but it is no longer spoken. They subsist through agriculture, fishing, and hunting small game. Their staple foods include coarse grains, mushrooms, and various fruits found in the forest. The Baigas practice an animistic religion, worshipping the deity Bura Deo who resides in the Saal Saj tree. They build houses inside the forest using materials like bamboo, wood, and tree leaves.

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Baiga Tribe: Culture and Lifestyle

The Baiga tribe lives in the forests of Madhya Pradesh, India. Numbering around 131,425 people, they traditionally spoke an Austro-Asiatic language but it is no longer spoken. They subsist through agriculture, fishing, and hunting small game. Their staple foods include coarse grains, mushrooms, and various fruits found in the forest. The Baigas practice an animistic religion, worshipping the deity Bura Deo who resides in the Saal Saj tree. They build houses inside the forest using materials like bamboo, wood, and tree leaves.

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Name of the tribe - BAIGA

Place
Habitat Population Villages Language

- Madhya Pradesh
- Forest
- Baiga 131425 (source 92-93)
- Baigas spoke a Austro-Asiatic language, however no trace of it is left now.[6] Some Baigas (specifically those from the Mandla district) have mentioned "Baigani" as their mother tongue in the past:

Food

-They eat coarse grain, kodo, and kutki, drink pej,


eat little flour and are normally content with what little that they get. One of the prime foods is pej that can be made from grounding macca or from the water left from boiling rice. They also eat BirarKand, Kadukand and other rhizomes. Mushroom is also a delicacy. Numerous fruits such as mango, char, jamun, tendu are also eaten.

They hunt as well, primarily fish and small mammals.

occupation
RELIGION

: agriculture, fishing
The religion of the Baigas is primarily animism. Their principal deity is Bura Deo. The deity is believed to reside in the Saal Saj Tree which is worshipped by the Bai8gas in the month of May during which goats, coconuts, fowls, and liquor of the new mahura crop is offered to the deity. For the village land and boundaries another deity, Thakur Deio is worshipped who is appreased with a white goat.

HOUSE

: Build inside the forest by bamboo trees, solid wood and tree leafs

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