THE HUMAN PERSON
PERSPECTIVE OF THE PRIMEVAL PEOPLE
Keywords:
HUMAN PERSONAbstract
The primeval people are the earliest settlers of' a region; they are also known as indigenous people, original inhabitants, adivasis, tribals or Scheduled Tribes. More accurately, they are the earliest migrants who have established a reciprocal relationship with their immediate ecology. There are 200 million indigenous people all over the globe, divided into more than LOOO ethnic groups. Roughly, three quarters of them live in Asia.
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