Woman in red sari standing in front of her mud house entrance. santhal tribe, Hardhekitand village, Jharkhand, India

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Santhals are the largest adivasi (indigenous) community in the Indian subcontinent with a population of more than 10 million and they reside mostly in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Assam and Bihar, and sparsely in Bangladesh and Nepal.

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