Indian Travel

Kurumbar The Kurumbar (Kurumbar-plural, kurumban- singular ) are a scheduled tribe inhabiting Attappady  valley Mannarghat taluk Palghat district. They are also found sparingly distributed in the adjascent Nilgiri areas of Tamil Nadu . They subsist on slash and burn cultivation, minor forest produce collection and animal husbandry . Their tongue is more akin to Tamil with large admixtureof Malayalam. According to the 1981 Census  their population in the valley numbered 1283. Literacy among them is 1.86 percent. They have been identified as  a primitive tribe by Government of India in 1976 . consequently , a number of development measures have been undertaken to raise their lot.

Cholanaickan The Cholanaickan ( Cholanaickan - singular, Cholanaickar -Plural ) are a diminutive tribal community inhabiting the interior recesses of the forests of Nilambur valley of Malappuram district . They subsist on food gathering , hunting and collection of minor forest produces. They are totally illiterate and are shy and elusive . They speak a language with a heavy influence of Kannada.                        The cholanaickan lead an isolated life with very limited contact with the society at large. The per -1981 Censuses have failed to enumerate them . However, they have been identified as a primitive tribe by the Government of India in 1976 and consequent upon this the Cholanaickan have been brought under the protective canopy of tribal development programmes of the Government