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Kharia people

The Kharia are an Adivasi people of eastern India, living mainly in Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. They speak Kharia, a Munda language of the Austroasiatic family, and have traditionally lived by farming, forest gathering and labour. Many became Christians under missionary influence from the 19th century, and they are recognised as a Scheduled Tribe.

Kharia people
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Gangpur State

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