SABAR TRIBE AND THEIR TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Our mother land India do possess multi-culture, multi-lingual, multi-caste, multi-tradition. In our country we celebrate the diversity in respect of castes, creed, social status, religion, and language. According to famous Bengali Poet Atul Prashad Sen in India we celebrate the ‘unity in diversity’. This is our excellency as a being of Indian citizen we hold scientific temperament and we accept all citizen as our brother and sister. But now days our national sprit some extend get saturation but it is danger for progress, either individual or national perspective. We must think -rethink for the real inclusion for all through educative process otherwise inclusive Education became a hypothetical word. In recent time EFF (Education for All) is a became constitutional right to seek education of every Indian citizen but the ground reality is far from the theoretical or reel reality, even in this juncture many communities are deprived, stressed, and marginalized, and suppressed specifically The Sabar tribe is one of them. Day by day the Sabar are far from the mainstream society. They became marginalized, deprived, endanger and primitive. Their traditional qua Indigenous knowledge practices missing rapidly and they loss their Sabari Language, which is their self-identity, through language they transformed their culture, social norms, habits, agriculture, medicinal practices, behavioral pattern one generation to next generation. But it is unfortunate that at present Sabar tribe struggle for survival, due to impact of L.P.G (LIBARALIZATION, PRIVATISION AND GLOBALIZATION) on their culture, society and as a whole life style. Therefore, researchers attempt has been made to identify the Traditional qua Indigenous knowledge practiced by the Sabar tribal community for Sustainable development.it means researcher examined the whether traditional or indigenous knowledge have anything to deal with sustainable development practiced by the Sabar community and researchers also explored Indigenous knowledge practices practiced by the Sabar tribal Community for Sustainability such as Social Sustainability, Economical Sustainability and Environmental Sustainability. With keeping the above objectives researchers has constructed open ended questionnaire, observational scheduled and focused group discussion with the Sabar community members and finally researchers reveals that the even this juncture Sabar tribal community hold deep indigenous knowledge practices and these indigenous knowledge practices must be identified and explore and juxtaposed with the Sustainable Development specially 2030 Agenda.