The creation of this digital library, an activity approved by the Adivasi Munnetra Sangam (AMS) aims to help preserve the cultural identity of these four tribes by promoting an understanding of their lives, traditional cultural practices and beliefs through the recording of their stories.

The rich cultural traditions of the Adivasi, including their languages and extensive oral literary output, are little appreciated or understood by the mainstream. Within the tribal communities themselves, traditional systems of passing on information and knowledge between generations, especially around those cultural traditions, has broken down. Many trends of modern-day life contribute; the schooling in mainstream schools for the children and year-round labouring and farming for the adults, replacing their former seasonal economic activity, has left both with little time to spend together. Rather than sharing stories while engaging in communal activities, leisure time, in the villages as elsewhere, is spent watching television and, for the youth, looking at mobile phones or engaging in social media. The physical and mental well-being of the communities has suffered accordingly. Unless it is celebrated and respected, their unique tribal culture will be irretrievably lost. Greater recognition is also needed of the importance of the guardianship of nature by the Adivasi people globally, since 80% of the most biodiverse areas on Earth are their traditional homes.