• Somnath Mandal
• Subrata Haldar

This study has been concerned with the relation between the concentration of scheduled tribes population and forest density or areal coverage in Purulia district. Purulia district is located at the western edge of West Bengal where 10.21 per cent population belongs with scheduled tribe population. Tribal people have been preferred forest for everything. The statistical and cartographic method has been applied to examine the relationship between scheduled tribe population and forest concentration in Purulia district. 2459 numbers of villages have been considered to be sample in this study. The study found the relation between scheduled tribe population and forest cover is statistically significant. So, the study concluded that highest forest coverage villages have the higher percentage of scheduled tribe population than scheduled castes as well as others caste population.

Scheduled Tribe, Forest Area, Statistical method, Cartographic Method

"How the Indigenous population concentration influenced by forest density: A village level study in Purulia district of West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.55-66, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808650.pdf

"How the Indigenous population concentration influenced by forest density: A village level study in Purulia district of West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp55-66, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808650.pdf