Paper short abstract:

One of the primitive tribes of Jharkhand; the Sauria Paharias are the most marginalized indigenous gentry of Sahibganj district. To earnestly empathize with their plight holistic intercession from the global academic intelligentsia is obligatory between guided measures to conserve this vanishing human race.

Paper long abstract:

The present paper proposes to present the Sauria Paharias as one of the most primitive tribes to be found in the miserly accessible parts of Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and other surrounding regions of India. As the title itself suggests, these people reside in the meager plain straps of low or medium hill structures. They are one of the three divisions of the Paharia tribe, the other two being Mal and Kumhar respectively. Accounting for the recent inevitable changes in economic and ecological conditions, the particular tribe is rendered most vulnerable if we contrast their condition to that of its other two corresponding categories. The paper takes an attempt to study their quintessential nature in terms of their native cultural, occupational, traditional and religious practices in order to analyze and assess the real transitions in tribal tendencies on their part in general. Despite being universally acknowledged as the first known settlers in Santhal Pargana, this tribe is in the verge of relapsing into enfeebling vigor on the face of ongoing developments in their social and cultural environs. The paper walks further to segregate and decentralize the crisis into respective sections namely social, cultural, economic, religious to take the discourse towards a valid end. The promising hope that the apex and the appendix help agencies provide to salvage safeguard and streamline their state in today's dynamic scenario is never a vaguely idealized prospect until it fully serves that motive.