Mesram Tukdoji, among the last of the Pardhan Adivasi bards, singing at the Nagoba temple in Adilabad district on Monday.— Photo: S. Harpal Singh
Gond pilgrim paying obeisance at the Ravudken, the symbolic protectors of their shrines at the Jangubai cave temple in Adilabad District. - Photo: S. Harpal Singh
Gonds beating the sacred drums before entering the cave temple of Jangubai in Adilabad District. - Photo: S. Harpal Singh
Gond women from Tiryani carrying food offerings in the bamboo baskets to Jangubai cave temple in Parandoli gram panchayat in Kerameri mandal in Adilabad District. The practice is to offer naivedyam made of food crops harvested at the end of the year to goddess Jangubai. - Photo: S. Harpal Singh
A well-organised caravan of Raj Gonds returning from Jangubai pilgrimage in Adilabad District. - Photo: S. Harpal Singh
A Gond priest organising the old deity of Nagoba at the Nagoba Temple at Keslapur in Adilabad District on Saturday. - Photo: S. Harpal Singh
A newly arrived Gond woman greeting her clan members at the banyan tree camp in Keslapur in Adilabad District on Saturday. - Photo: S. Harpal Singh
The ‘bheti koriad’ proceeding towards the Nagoba temple in the early hours of Monday to take part in the ‘bheting’ ceremony, in Adilabad district.— Photo: S. Harpal Singh