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Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Where Portuguese colonial streets sit beside Adivasi forest villages.
This merged union territory holds two very different worlds — Daman and Diu's Portuguese-era churches, forts and street layouts, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli's Adivasi Warli and Kokna communities living largely by forest and farm tradition.
Warli painting, with its geometric white-on-mud figures of farming, dance and daily life, is the region's best-known craft and is still taught inside the villages that produce it, not just sold outside them.
Worth knowing
- ·Warli painting taught inside Adivasi villages
- ·Portuguese-era forts and churches along the Daman and Diu coast
- ·Tarpa dance performed at harvest and marriage festivals
Living traditions
Traditions & performing arts of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
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