HISTORY
THE FIRST ONE
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B.R. Ambedkar
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Thakkar Bappa
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Jyotiba Phule
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Detailed explanation-1: -The word ‘Adivasi’ is derived from Sanskrit and means ‘the earliest inhabitants’. Adivasi is the word coined to represent indigenous people of India, is widely used in India and Bangladesh. The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by Thakkar Bappa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Adivasi, (Hindi: “Original Inhabitants”) official name (in India) Scheduled Tribes, any of various ethnic groups considered to be the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. The term is used primarily in India and Bangladesh.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term Adivasi derives from the Hindi word ‘adi’ which means of earliest times or from the beginning and ‘vasi’ meaning inhabitant or resident, and it was coined in the 1930s, largely a consequence of a political movement to forge a sense of identity among the various indigenous peoples of India.