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Banana plantation at Narna village, Madhya Pradesh, India. Narna is situated in Paraswada tehsil and located in Balaghat district of Madhya pradesh. It is one of 174 villages in paraswada block along with villages like Jhulup and Sarekha. Narna is well known for its mud houses that are made by people of the Gondi or Gond tribe. The Gondi tribe or Gond tribe are one of the main tribes of Madhya Pradesh and are found in the Narna village that lies on the fringes of Kanha forest. Gond people are a Dravidian people in central India, spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh, eastern Maharashtra (Vidarbha), Chhattisgarh, northern Andhra Pradesh (Telangana), and Western Odisha (Majhi or Gan community). With over four million people, they are the largest tribe in Central India. They are a designat