CBSE Class 8 Social Science
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Tribals Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age — Question 27
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Question What were the main activities of the Khonds living in the forests of Orissa?
The Khonds were basically hunter-gatherers. They regularly went out on collective hunts and then divided the meat amongst themselves. They ate fruits and roots collected from the forest and cooked food with the oil they extracted from the seeds of the sal and mahua. They used many forest shrubs and herbs for medicinal purposes and sold forest produce in the local markets. All their activities were based on forests.