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Climate Change and Its Impacts on Tribal Culture of Assam, North East India

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Premananda Borah
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.10.890

Abstract

Climate change is a global phenomenon throughout the world that has significant challenges to the environment and societies, with tremendous consequences for vulnerable communities of India, particularly indigenous tribes of North-east India. The complex link between environmental change and its effects on the tribal culture of Assam, a state in northeastern India, is explored in this abstract. Tribal people in Assam have an extensive heritage of culture tightly linked with the natural world, rendering them particularly vulnerable to the disturbances brought on by shifting climate trends. The research explores the many facets of Assam's climate change. It explores how it may affect several factors of tribal culture, such as traditional means of subsistence, cultural practices, social systems, and religious practices. Tribal agricultural practices are disrupted by changing patterns of rainfall, increasing temperatures, and an increase in adverse weather conditions, which causes a shortage of food and water. The study emphasizes how climate-related occurrences are forcing tribal communities to move, which is eroding their traditional lands, community cohesiveness, and distinctive identities. Tribal populations frequently experience pressure to merge into mainstream culture as a result of challenges to their livelihood, which puts the safeguarding of their distinctive cultural legacy at risk. This abstract highlights the urgent requirement for comprehensive policies that incorporate local knowledge, community involvement, and scientific know-how to address the interdependent issues of climate change and the safeguarding of tribal culture in Assam and other comparable regions of India. In the face of climate change, collective efforts that enable tribal people to adapt while respecting their distinctive history can help to create a more sustainable and culturally varied future.

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