Though, like the other tribes, Santals are featured as inward-looking and ethnocentric, they are incidentally one of the most articulative tribes in eastern India. In the past they had been migrated from their ‘homeland’ Santalpargana to different adjoining districts of eastern Indian states. Since then they started articulating with the non-tribals of the three separate speech-zones like West Bengal, Jharkhand (the then Bihar) and Orissa. In this changing ...
