<P> Adivasi is the collective term for the indigenous peoples of mainland South Asia . Adivasi make up 8.6% of India's population, or 104 million people, according to the 2011 census, and a large percentage of the Nepalese population . They comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India and Nepal . The same term Adivasi is used for the ethnic minorities of Bangladesh and the native Tharu people of Nepal . The word is also used in the same sense in Nepal, as is another word, janajati (Nepali: जनजाति; janajāti), although the political context differed historically under the Shah and Rana dynasties . </P> <P> Adivasi societies are particularly prominent in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal and some north - eastern states, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . Many smaller tribal groups are quite sensitive to ecological degradation caused by modernisation . Both commercial forestry and intensive agriculture have proved destructive to the forests that had endured swidden agriculture for many centuries . Adivasis in central part of India have been victims of the Salwa Judum campaign by the Government against the Naxalite insurgency . </P>

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