Siddi Tribal Community
Recently, President of India welcomed the achievement of the Siddi tribal community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, in attaining a literacy rate exceeding 72 percent.
- The Siddi community is an Indo-African tribal community that descended from the Bantu community of Africa.
- It is believed that they first came to India in the 7th century with Arab merchants and in the 16th century with the Portuguese and British, largely as slaves, servants, blacksmiths, carpenters and masons.
- The majority of them are found in the west and southwest of India, in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana states.
- They speak Konkani, Urdu or ....
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