{"id":7913,"date":"2020-05-14T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2020-05-14T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:39:03","slug":"toda-tribes-their-masks-help-in-the-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/toda-tribes-their-masks-help-in-the-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Toda tribes &#038; their masks help in the fight against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Society<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/eq8zxr\/article31549251.ece\/ALTERNATES\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/toda\" alt=\"Toda embroidered masks help in the fight against COVID-19 - The Hindu\" \/><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the indigenous Toda artisans from the Nilgiris are producing thousands of masks with exquisite embroidery for local residents, police, and sanitary workers.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slideplayer.com\/slide\/6892167\/23\/images\/14\/TODA.jpg\" alt=\"PRIMITIVE TRIBES \/ PVTGS - ppt video online download\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toda people are a Dravidian ethnic group who live in the Nilgiri Mountains of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 During the 20th century, the Toda population has hovered in the range 700 to 900.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Toda traditionally live in settlements called Mund, consisting of three to seven small thatched houses. The Toda huts, called dogles, are of an oval, pent-shaped construction built of bamboo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Their economy was pastoral, based on the buffalo, whose dairy products they traded with neighbouring peoples of the Nilgiri Hills.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fraternal polyandry \u2013 a practice in which a woman marries all the brothers of a family \u2013 in traditional Toda society was fairly common; however, this practice has now been totally abandoned, as has female infanticide.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Since the early 21st century, Toda society and culture have been the focus of an international effort at culturally sensitive environmental restoration.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Toda lands are now a part of The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO-designated International Biosphere Reserve; their territory is declared UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Society Why in news? \u2022 Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the indigenous Toda artisans from the Nilgiris are producing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}