India is home to around 100 million tribal people. Known by the umbrella term Adivasis, most of them reside in a handful of states in central and eastern India. They are nature worshippers and their faith is called Sarnaism. But it isn’t recognized as one of India’s major religions. Reporter Sushmita Pathak says Sarnaism supporters say that’s unfair as they outnumber other faiths.
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