Posted on September 29, 2011 by Human Rights Online Philippines
> continueTribals, the ethnic minority of Kerala, constitute one percent of the state’s population. Formation of the state in 1956 and the division of the state into different districts horizontally left the tribal population of Kerala scattered, mostly in hilly areas. They started facing problems of existence with the encroachment of their ancestral land by powerful settlers from the plains, starting from pre-independence days. PANIYA, the labourers constitute the major share of the 37 tribes of this state.
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