A Study on Socio-Economic Condition of BAIGA Tribal Community

The tribe Baigas are found in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states of India with an approximate population of 2,50,000. But in Baiga-chuk in Mandla district and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh, Baigas are found in quite large numbers. Bijhwar, Narotia, Bharotiya, Nahar, RaiBhaina, and KadhBhaina.are the sub- castes in the tribe. Many of this tribe people embraced Hinduism and their population came down due to this shifting of many people in this tribe. This tribe shows their link with the primitives of the Dravidian tribe who lived in the north-east India and later shifted to Jharkhand