Aboriginal India A vibrant take on tribes of India Mundas, Jharkhand “Munda” is a Sanskrit word meaning “headman”. It is an honorific name given by Hindus and hence became a tribal name. These tribes are also sometimes called Kolarian. The Munda have traditionally been farm laborers, woodcutters and basket weavers. Although their religion is basically animistic, the Mundas believe in a supreme being they call Sing Bonga. He is widely revered but only invoked at the time of major calamities, when a white fowl is sacrificed to him. Two lesser classes of deities (bongas) are the village gods and the household gods. #soozayqart #mundatribe #aboriginals #tribesofindia #digitalart