1. Habitat areas: Gond is the biggest tribal group of the world. This tribe lives in Indian peninsula. Satpura hills, Maikal range, Son – Deogarh high land, plateau of Bastar, and Garhjat hills are their main habitat areas.
2. Social condition:
(a) Food system: Kodu and Kuttuki are the local food grain types mainly consumed by Gond tribes. They grow vegetables in their kitchen gardens and in their fields and also obtain them from the forest. Rice is cooked on the occasion of festivals. They eat meat obtained from hunting animals and animal sacrifice. They consume wine made of mahua.
(b) Clothes and ornaments: Gonds wear cotton clothes. Both male and female wear ornaments made of silver and aluminium. Women wear colourful glass bangles and necklace made of black beeds and cawries in their neck. Womens make tattoos on their body. Girls place almost half-a-dozen combs made of white bamboo in the crown of their hair.
(c) House/Residence: Gonds live in nangale, i.e., palli and small village. They organise shagun at the place where they wish to build the house and celebrate there. There, they give sacrifice of duck or code. Their houses are made of grass and mud. Living room, kitchen, verandah and chapel is necessarily built in them.
3. Society and Culture: Gonds live in a patriarchal social structure. After the death of the father, his entire property is distributed among his sons. The eldest man is the head of the family. Service marriage, exchange marriage, kidnapping marriage and widow marriage patterns are found among Gond people, and marriage ceremony is organised at some natural place, such as – near a water source or under the mango tree.
Ramdhuni is organised to avoid any unpleasant incident on their occasion. Head of the village is called Patel or Mukhadam and Watchman of village is called Kotwar. Gonds speak Hindi, Marathi, Telgu languages. Mutual conflicts are resolved by the Panchayat. The village priest is called Debari.
