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12025-08-15T13:58:14-04:00Ho Writers2Writers from the Ho Communityplain2025-08-15T13:59:29-04:00 The Ho community is an Adivasi community in eastern India with approximately 2 million people living mostly in Jharkhand and Odisha. The Ho language is Austroasiatic and is described as similar to Mundari.
Damayanti Sinku (1961- ): A writer, poet, and linguist from the Ho community. She has written several dictionaries and grammar books of the Ho language. (Read our author profile here) (Our translation of her poem "Our Jharkhand")
Kanuram Devgam (dates unknown): A politician and writer from the Ho community in Jharkhand. According to some sources, he was the first Member of Parliament to be elected from the Singhbhum constituency to the seat reserved from Scheduled Castes in 1952.
