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Original inhabitants

Sir,— This has reference to Mr. Pradeep Kumar's letter ( March 1 ) asserting that the Adivasis have a lineage of 20,000 years. All people in India have the same lineage, whether they are Adivasis of the forests or the Adivasis of the plains. All were Adivasis to begin with. The Bihar uprising of 1778 and the Lakshman Naik's of Orissa in 1942 were against the British, but they would have fought with equal force any native government at Patna, Bhubaneshwar or Delhi had their "empires" been touched. There is no need to eulogise them for the sake of political convenience.

Who gave the Advisasis the impression that all forest land belongs to them? To others, the deserts and the oceans?

V.V. Prabhu,
Quilon, Kerala

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