About Konda Reddi Tribe:

• Konda Reddis is a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) inhabiting the banks of the river Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.
• Language: They speak Telugu with a unique accent.
• Religion: The primary religion practiced by the Konda Reddi is Folk Hinduism, characterized by local traditions and cults of local deities worshipped at the community level.
• Family and Marriage:
  • The family is patriarchal and patrilocal. Monogamy is a rule, but polygamous families are also found.
  • Marriage by negotiations, by love and elopement, by service, by capture, and by exchange are socially accepted ways of acquiring mates. 
• Political Organization:
  • They have their own institution of social control called ‘Kula Panchayat’.
  • Each village has a traditional headman called ‘Pedda Kapu’.
  • The office of the headman is hereditary, and the headman is also the Pujari (priest) of the village deities.
• Livelihood: They are primarily shifting cultivators and largely depend on the flora and fauna of forests for their livelihood. They cultivate largely jowar, which is their staple food.
• The Konda Reddi tribe’s way of life largely revolves around the cow, which is a source of sustenance for them.
• The traditional houses of the Konda Reddis have retained their unique architectural look over the centuries.
• These tribal people are aggressive in the cultivation of commercial crops such as cashew, niger, chilli and cotton under the Podu cultivation method.
• The tribe has adopted a unique circular-shaped architecture for housing. The houses, built with circular mud walls and thatched roofs, resemble the Bhunga architecture of Gujarat’s Kachchh region.