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Pardhi School

            This is the Pardhi school - the yellow plastic bag in the foreground contains all the educational material. 

Pardhis are a tribe in India who traditionally hunted for a living. However, in a more modern setup with the kings owning land - Pardhi's were declared as criminals - hunting from the kings' land. Ostracized they began to survive through minor crimes - poaching, making away with livestock and so on. 
. Very often caste, class and social systems ensured that the Pardhi's could not assimilate with main stream society, and their dependance on crime increased. The British Raj declared the Pardhi's to be criminal tribes.

Post independence the term cirminal was dropped and attempts were made to bring the tribe in line with mainstream society. However, it hasn't been easy. Even today the police will look for a Pardhi at the first hint of a crime. Villages don't want Pardhi's settling down near them - because of their past. Many settle illegaly on Forest Land and their settlements are torn down at regular intervals. 

All this leaves the children in dire straits. A nomadic lifes tyle is not condusive to education, and social ostracization means that they are wary of going to the local schools. 
TDSS has set up a number of projects that helps educate Pardhi children, Using volunteers it ensures that basic education skills are imparted to these children.

Of all the places that I visited in the course of the documentary, this was the worst. Everywhere else there seemed to be hope and aspirations for a better tomorrow. Here there was none.

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Taken on: August 8, 2006

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