Community and Environmental Protection - In Search of the Lost Spring of Happiness of the North-Eastern Region

Autor: Dr. Sujata Bhattacharyya
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4876265
Popis: Indigenous people, who are known as Adivasis or tribals in India wherever else, all the time live in normally rich yet financially helpless territories. More than 160 indigenous networks with particular social characters live in the North Eastern Region of India. The solid connection with their property and the information they have gained overages through stories and fantasies cause them to comprehend the complexities just as the soul of nature. Happiness and biological resources are the two sides of the same coin for the indigenous communities of the North Eastern Region. The traditional ways of their worship shows the symbiotic relationship with nature. The various customary practices, festivals and religious practices, traditional values and believes, livelihood practices and trade, traditional administrative and financial management policies, etc has a great level of co-existence with peaceful, sustainable, and happy verve of nature. The paper highlights the overlapping of the abundance of biodiversity with the existence of an indigenous community of North-East in Particular. Tribal people of the NE Region had methods to protect, preserve and live harmoniously with nature. Analysis of the linkage between the environment and sustainable development of this region is the need of time as the society of the region is fast losing its last strings of happiness due to the exponential pace of change because of certain issues which may or may not be directly under the control of the gene pool in the region. The blending of traditional and modern techniques and the revival of old tribal beliefs and knowledge regarding the preservation of the environment may be the ultimate response. The objective of the paper is to explore the relationship of the indigenous community with the nature that leeway effective conservation of natural resources that can restore the peace and happiness of the region. A doctrinal methodology is adopted for the study.
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