imported>Run the script again with --delete to remove them from the database.: enhance section additionally and updated info

2025-11-27T11:24:09Z

enhance section additionally and updated info

imported>Dawnpope: Added reference for religion.

2021-08-14T17:41:42Z

Added reference for religion.

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Sabara
| image =
| region1 = [[Odisha]]
| pop1 = 516,402
| languages = [[Lodhi language|Lodhi]]
| Script =
| religions = '''Majority'''<br>[[Hinduism]] (99.7%)
<br/>'''Minority'''<br/>[[Buddhism]] (0.2%) and [[Animism]] (0.1%)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/17990/IN|title=Sabar in India|website=[[Joshua Project]]}}</ref>
| related = [[Munda people|Mundas]], [[Ho people|Ho]], [[Santhal people|Santhal]] and other [[Austroasiatic languages|Mon-Khmer people]]
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| pop2 = 108,707
| region2 = [[West Bengal]]
| region3 = [[Bangladesh]]
| pop3 = 2,000
}}

{{dablink|Not to be confused with [[Sabir people]].}}

The '''Sabar people''' (also '''Shabar''' and '''Saora''') are one of the [[Adivasi]] of [[Munda peoples|Munda ethnic group]] tribe who live mainly in [[Odisha]] and [[West Bengal]]. During the [[British Raj|colonial period]], they were classed as one of the 'criminal tribes' under [[Criminal Tribes Act]] 1871, and suffer from social stigma and [[ostracism]] in modern times.<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/oct/16dilip.htm Dilip D'Souza on the Sabar tribe] ''[[Rediff.com]]'', October 16, 1999.</ref><ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/jun/10dilip.htm Accused Of Being Accursed] by Dilip D'Souza, ''[[Rediff.com]]'', 10 June 1999.</ref>

Also known as Saora, the Sabar tribe finds mention in the Hindu epic [[Mahabharata]],<ref>''[http://www.bharatonline.com/orissa/tribes/index.html Orissa Tribes] ''bharatonline.com'.</ref> while in some parts of [[East Singhbhum district]] mainly in [[Musabani]], they are known as in Kariya.<ref>[http://www.india9.com/i9show/Sabar-Tribe-73495.htm Sabar Tribe] ''india9.com''.</ref> Noted writer and activist [[Mahasweta Devi]] is known for working with these forest tribals.<ref>''[http://www.tehelka.com/story_main6.asp?filename=Ne090411Hazaar_Chaurasi.asp Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Ma - Mahashweta Devi] ''[[Tehelka]], 11 September 2004.</ref>

This reclusive tribe is found primarily in [[Odisha]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103140144/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/27/stories/2008022757810300.htm Sabar tribals go on ‘Bharat Darshan’] ''[[The Hindu]]'', 27 February 2008.</ref> and in [[Midnapore District]] of [[West Bengal]].

The traditionally forest-dwelling tribe lack experience in agriculture, and rely on the forests for their livelihood. In recent years, with the spread of the [[Naxalite]] rebellion in the area, the police often restrict their access to the forest. In 2004, five persons in the Sabar village of [[Amlasole]], in [[Midnapore]] district, died after several months of starvation,
<ref>{{cite news|publisher = [[India Today]]|url = http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20040628/states2.html|title=Red Faced|date=2004-06-28|accessdate=2015-10-17|website=indiatoday.com|quote=Budhu Sabar, who lost his father Samay and sister Mongli earlier this year, has no doubt they starved to death. "My father had nothing but water for almost a fortnight before his death," says Budhu. "In the end he got fever and I watched him die without food."}}</ref> leading to a national media furore. Subsequently, Durbar Mahila Samanway Committee (DMSC) started a school in the area, funded partially by sex workers from [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]] |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/special-news-report/Special/Missing-mantris-Sex-workers-step-in/Article3-391166.aspx |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017134251/http://www.hindustantimes.com/special-news-report/Special/Missing-mantris-Sex-workers-step-in/Article3-391166.aspx |archivedate=17 October 2012 | title=Missing mantris: Sex workers step in | date=20 March 2009 | first=B Vijay | last=Murty | accessdate=8 November 2018 }}</ref>

In June 2008, the Sabar suffered severe flooding in many of their West Bengal villages, and then received large amounts of aid from Catholic missionaries.

Hundreds of Sabars migrated to present-day Bangladesh during the [[British Raj|colonial period]] to work as tea garden labourers. Today, there are around 2000 of them residing the northeastern district of [[Moulvibazar District|Moulvibazar]], in areas such as [[Kamalganj Upazila|Nandarani]], [[Sreemangal Upazila|Harinchhara and Rajghat]].<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Shabar|author=Jengcham, Subhash}}</ref>

==References==
<references/>

==Further reading==
* ''The Book of the Hunter'', by [[Mahasweta Devi]], translated by Sagaree and Mandira Sengupta, Seagull, 2002. {{ISBN|81-7046-204-5}}.
* [http://www.countercurrents.org/devi121007.htm Hated, Humiliated, Butchered] by [[Mahasweta Devi]], ''[[Tehelka]]'', 12 October 2007
*[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6929049-the-why-why-girl?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZcZVKKxwGc&rank=1 The Why-Why Girl], by [[Mahasweta Devi]], illustrated by Kanyika Kini, Tulika Press, 2005. {{ISBN|9788181460189}}.

== Sources ==
* [http://jamshedpur.nic.in/tourist.htm Sabar tribe in Sabar Nagar, Jamshedpur district]

{{Scheduled tribes of West Bengal}}
{{Scheduled tribes in Orissa}}
{{Ethnic groups in Bangladesh}}
{{authority control}}
[[Category:Social groups of Odisha]]
[[Category:Social groups of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Tribes of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Odisha]]
[[Category:Scheduled Tribes of India]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Jharkhand]]
[[Category:Hindu communities]]
[[Category:Social groups of Jharkhand]]
[[Category:Denotified tribes of India]]
[[Category:People from Srimangal Upazila]]
[[Category:People from Kamalganj Upazila]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Bangladesh]]
[[Category:Scheduled Tribes of Odisha]]
[[Category:Indo-Aryan peoples]]

Sabar people - Revision history

imported>Run the script again with --delete to remove them from the database.: enhance section additionally and updated info

imported>Dawnpope: Added reference for religion.