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Tribal Tea Plantation Workers and Their Health A Critical Study of Tripura

Tribal Tea Plantation Workers and Their Health A Critical Study of Tripura

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Author:Dr Surojit Sen Gupta
ISBN 13:9789394569027
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2022
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology/Tribal Studies

About the Book

The health care practices among the tribal are the indispensable part of their culture. Primarily deriving from their own indigenous knowledge stock, tribal people have nurtured their own health care system organically linked with culture, tradition and ecology. Tribal health also depends on socio-economic and magico-religious practices. At the same time tribal health and their traditional healing practices are not only influenced by medicines but also influenced by socio-cultural, rituals, traditional religious faith, belief, environment, ecology and forest. It conveys a meaning of disease not simply left to scrutiny of medical treatment but subjected to culture and traditional medical practices. For the last few decades the tribal people have been witnessing a gradual erosion of their ecology and traditional medicinal practices with the ruthless encroachment of human settlement. Although the advent of modern medicinal practices has remained less accessible to the tribal but certainly it has found some place in their indigenous healthcare system. Keeping this background the book examines the Social and Cultural Dimension of Health of Tribal Tea Plantation Workers in Tripura. As in Tripura with the establishment of tea plantation in mid-nineteenth century this industry recruited tribal people as workers from distant places. Since then tea plantation workers are overwhelmingly of tribal origin. The tea plantation labourers in Tripura consist of various tribal communities, namely, Munda, Oraon, Santal, Bhill and other migrated tribal communities. The people with diverse social and cultural background had traditional pattern of health practices in their villages of origin and they migrated at Tripura to the tea plantation along with their traditional ‘sub-culture of medicine’.