bai-manus, aan wadi | people and hamlet_ 🌱

while roaming in the adivasi environment, there were challenges that i faced in understanding. it was challenging to hold consciousness to understand things without assumptions.i tried controlling that while looking at the field, road, greenery, etc. specifically, listening to what datta and another person were telling was difficult. being a person from a non-adivasi background, i felt safe in blaming the state machinery, which has not yet reached this place. there was no public transport, no communication asset, no network, or basic amenity. 

i thought of being scattered in thought processes while connecting all this with katkari adivasi as an indigenous tribe. i have not yet met any katkari person and listened to him about what this land and forest mean to them and what they think about the government. while talking to Wasanti taai, we discussed the presence of other communities other than katkari, which are more prominent in population.

agri is one of the dominant castes that live in this region. this community has been included in the other backward classes (OBC) schedule. its primary occupation is fishing, but the community has been expanded and based in the village, semi-urban spaces. it now holds the majority of land and livelihood means.

the kunabi maratha is another sub-caste group that lives near katkari Waadi'es. But there is a clear separation of both the settlements. most katkari laborer families work under contract at the fields and brick factories owned by kunabi maratha families.

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