Its main objective is to carry out research that helps to promote development among the scheduled communities in Kerala.
It also attempts to identify the needs and problems confronting the marginalized section of the population and suggest recommendations to the government in finding a panacea for their overall development.
The institute was established in the year 1970 as Tribal Research and Training Center in a national pattern and works among all the scheduled communities for their development.
The Ethnological Museum holds artefacts in tribal history; exhibits include clothes, household utensils, bows and arrows, musical instruments, wood carvings, plant specimens and ceremonial paraphernalia.
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