Shunta Tribe

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[edit] Introduction

The Udeep Tribe of India represent about 300 families living in northern India. Based solely in the Himichal Pradesh of northern India, the Udeep live in two different towns each controlled by a separate clan. The town of Junkow is home to the Kulkarni clan while the Chhattispur clan manages the town of Aokini. The Udeep represent some of the last vestiges of Jainism remaining in that region of India.

[edit] History

A people of Dravidian descent, when they emigrated out southern India aways from the rest of the Dravidians is unclear but the migration appears to have happened in the mid 1200s after they sided with the invading Mongols and were driven out of the Southern Peninsula.

[edit] References

Himachal Tourism, [1] The Udeep by Anita Palmarni A History of Jainism in India by Dr. Adam Fitzsimmons