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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                  SESSION - 2025-26
                                                   STD VI- HISTORY
                                             CH-7 India’s Cultural Roots
                                                         NOTES


               Sub topic 4- (Folk and Tribal Roots)


               1- India has also had rich ‘oral traditions’, that is, teachings or practices
               transmitted through everyday practice, without written texts.

               2- Among them are numerous folk traditions, that are transmitted by common
               people, and tribal traditions, transmitted by tribes.

               3- There has been a constant interaction between folk and tribal traditions.
               4- Jagannath, worshipped at Puri (Odisha), was originally a tribal deity, adopted

               by Hinduism.
               5- Many tribals, too, adopted Hindu deities as part of their cultures.

               6- They also have their own versions of epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata.
               7- Folk, tribal and Hindu belief systems have many similar concepts.
               8- In all three, elements of nature such as mountains, rivers, trees, plants and

               animals, and some stones too, are regarded as sacred.
               9- Many tribal groups have a concept of a higher divinity or supreme being.

               10- The result of this long interaction between Hindu, folk, and tribal cultures has
               been mutual enrichment.
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