Gondi tribal people live a very simple life and are mainly found in the central part of India such as Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
In Madhya pradesh they are found in Narna village, located in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. It is one of 174 villages in Paraswada Block along with villages like Jhulup and Sarekha.
Narna is well known for its mud houses that are made by people of Gondi or Gond tribe. Gondi tribe or Gond tribe are one of the main tribes of Madhya Pradesh and are found in the Narna village that lies on the fringes of Kanha forest.
Gond people are a Dravidian people in central India, spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh, eastern Maharashtra (Vidarbha), Chhattisgarh, northern Andhra Pradesh (Telangana), and Western Odisha (Majhi or Gan community). With over four million people, they are the largest tribe in Central India. They are a designated as a Scheduled Tribe in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal.
Gond or Rajgond are same tribes. The term Raj Gond was widely used in 1950s, but has now become almost obsolete, probably because of the political eclipse of the Gond Rajas.
The Gondi language is related to Telugu and other Dravidian languages. About half of Gonds speak Gondi languages while the rest speak Indo-Aryan languages including Hindi.
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