A Study on Kinship System of Baiga Tribe of Sonbhadra District of (U.P.)
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 5
Abstract
Kinship is defined as the connection or relationship between persons by blood or marriage. If the kinship is related by blood it is called consaguinial kinship. For example, father son relationship will be called consaguinial kinship relation. Similarly when the kinship are related by marriage or by affinal relationship, the kinship relation is called affinal relationship. All societies recognise these kinship relation with certain limitation. In primitive societies, kinship relation are broad based and hence it is called broad range kinship. Again cognates are persons descended from the same ancestors or ancestress. Then the cognates may be traced in male line, They are referred to as agnates and their relationship as patrilineal kinship or agnatic kinship. If cognates are traced in male line, they are referred to as uterine kinship and their relationship is known as matrilineal kinship.The kinship system of the Baiga is of the usual classificatory. There are uncle and aunts in the society. They have joking and avoidance relationship with each other. Baiga is a tribe found in Uttar Pradesh and population 250,000, Uttar Pradesh, (Sonbhadra), Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand state of India. The largest number of Baigas is found in Baigas chuk in Mandla district and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. They have sub-castes Bijwar, Narotio, Bharotiya, Nahar Rai Bhaina, and Kadh Bhaina. Their population as of census 2001/2011 was 390,000. The tribal communities in India are extremely diverse and assorted. There are wide range diversity among them in respect of languages spoken, size of population and mode of livelihood. The number of communities that find their place in the list of the Schedule of the Indian Constitution is reflective of this diversity. The Government of India, in its Draft National Tribal Policy, 2006 records 698 Scheduled Tribes in India.
Authors and Affiliations
Momina Bano, Dr. (Ms) Alam Ara, Prof. (Dr. ) Jahanara
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