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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;For the Gond community, one of India&amp;rsquo;s largest Adivasi people, cremation is a part of the final rites when someone dies &amp;ndash; the dead body is put atop a pile of wood and burnt to ash. But realising that they were faced with a choice between holding on to an ancient ritual and protecting their environment, which they consider sacred, the Gond people of Chhattisgarh have decided to bury their dead instead of cremating them, to save trees.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>The Gond community has decided to bury their dead instead.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">For the Gond community, one of India&rsquo;s largest Adivasi people, cremation is a part of the final rites when someone dies &ndash; the dead body is put atop a pile of wood and burnt to ash. But realising that they were faced with a choice between holding on to an ancient ritual and protecting their environment, which they consider sacred, the Gond people of Chhattisgarh have decided to bury their dead instead of cremating them, to save trees.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">&ldquo;We [Gonds] have an integral relationship with nature and every feature of the forest has a spiritual significance for us,&rdquo; Siddh Ram Meravi, a Gond Adivasi and general secretary of Jila Gond Sewa Samiti of Kabirdham district in India&rsquo;s eastern state Chhattisgarh, told Mongabay-India. &ldquo;So, we have decided to save nature in every form and save trees for mankind. We are not going to put bodies on a massive pile of wood allowing the insatiable fire churning out ash.&rdquo;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">&ldquo;The practice of cutting trees and using them for making pyres can be stopped if we bury the dead instead of cremating them. Hence the community decided to include burying in our constitution,&rdquo; Meravi said, referring to the collective decision taken during the two-day community conference, Gond Mahasammelan, held on March 6 and March 7 in Kabirdham district. The event was attended by more than 2,000 delegates.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Gond tribes depend on the forest for survival. The forest and its trees provide shelter, medicines, water, food and fuel, notes the study Livelihood sources of Gond Tribes: A study of village Mangalnaar, Bhairamgarh block, Chhattisgarh conducted by Srabani Sanyal, Associate Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Ramyash, Assistant Professor at Government Naveen College Bhairamgarh, Chhattisgarh.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://scroll.in/article/990460/one-of-indias-largest-adivasi-groups-has-dropped-its-ancient-cremation-ritual-to-save-trees?fbclid=IwAR1-jW20gKsAkWoZOigaZa0lRHsuY2XBguLakabryAe_d33NE-_Fb0tp048">click here</a> to read more.</p>
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One of India’s largest Adivasi groups has dropped its ancient cremation ritual to save trees -Anup Dutta

-Scroll.in/ India.Mongabay.com The Gond community has decided to bury their dead instead. For the Gond community, one of India’s largest Adivasi people, cremation is a part of the final rites when someone dies – the dead body is put atop a pile of wood and burnt to ash. But realising that they were faced with a choice between holding on to an ancient ritual and protecting their environment, which they consider sacred, the Gond people of Chhattisgarh have decided to bury their dead instead of cremating them, to save trees. “We [Gonds] have an integral relationship with nature and every feature of the forest has a spiritual significance for us,” Siddh Ram Meravi, a Gond Adivasi and general secretary of Jila Gond Sewa Samiti of Kabirdham district in India’s eastern state Chhattisgarh, told Mongabay-India. “So, we have decided to save nature in every form and save trees for mankind. We are not going to put bodies on a massive pile of wood allowing the insatiable fire churning out ash.” “The practice of cutting trees and using them for making pyres can be stopped if we bury the dead instead of cremating them. Hence the community decided to include burying in our constitution,” Meravi said, referring to the collective decision taken during the two-day community conference, Gond Mahasammelan, held on March 6 and March 7 in Kabirdham district. The event was attended by more than 2,000 delegates. Gond tribes depend on the forest for survival. The forest and its trees provide shelter, medicines, water, food and fuel, notes the study Livelihood sources of Gond Tribes: A study of village Mangalnaar, Bhairamgarh block, Chhattisgarh conducted by Srabani Sanyal, Associate Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Ramyash, Assistant Professor at Government Naveen College Bhairamgarh, Chhattisgarh. Please click here to read more.