Download or read book A Glossary of Castes Tribes and Races in the Baroda State written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Structure of Indian Society written by A.M. Shah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a collection of ten articles written during 1982–2007 and an exhaustive introduction on the structural features of Indian society, that is, the enduring social groups, institutions and processes, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, etc. The book views Indian society in contemporary as well as historical perspective, based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material. The book focuses on the significance of village studies in transforming the understanding of Indian society and also shows how urban centres have been useful in shaping society. Taking a critical look at the prevailing thinking on various structures and institutions, the author uses insights derived from his comprehensive studies of kinship, marriage, religion, and grassroots politics in advancing their studies. He points out the strengths and weaknesses of these structures and institutions and the direction in which they are changing with respect to modern time. As against the overwhelming emphasis on the hierarchical dimension of caste, this book focuses on its horizontal dimension, that is, every caste’s population spread over villages and towns in an area, its internal organization and differentiation based on networks of kinship, marriage, patron-client relationship, and role of endogamy versus hypergamy in maintaining its boundaries. The tribes are also seen in the same perspective, emphasizing the tribe-caste homology. Finally, the book provides information on important issues like policy of reservations, the reliability of censuses and surveys of castes and tribes, removal of untouchability, growth of organized religion and secularization.

Download or read book Caste and Race in India written by Govind Sadashiv Ghurye and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1969 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over The Years This Book Has Remained A Basic Work For Students Of India Sociology And Anthropology And Has Been Acknowledged As A Bona-Fide Classic.

Download or read book Being Tribal written by Shereen Ratnagar and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an archaeologist Shereen Ratnagar has been long involved in studying the enigma of early kin-organized, small-scale and non-specialized societies which lack private landed-property and are free of a money economy; societies that we call tribal. Having conducted ethno-archaeological research amongst the tribal people in eastern Gujarat, she spent a few months living with them to investigate how, in spite of their miniscule land holdings, they are able to raise cash crops, year after year. Far from being abject or 'primitive', tribal people schedule their subsistence in a rational way, which is diversified in more ways that one, and families are self-sufficient to a considerable extent. That households think years ahead, is also abundantly clear from their provisions for the storage of food. Being Tribal attempts to define tribal society, traces tribal migrations in history, and examines their modes of agricultural production, This book also comes to the conclusion that tribal culture is robust, and that Indian society owes it to the tribal population--repeatedly displaced and marginalized in the interests of the powerful--to give them full scope to live out their destinies in their own way.

Download or read book Gujarat written by R. B. Lal and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Genetics of Castes and Tribes of India written by M. K. Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is Recommended To Geneticists, Demographers, Biomedical Scientists And Palaco-Anthropologists Whose Research In Directed To Increasing Ones Understanding Of The Biological Diversity And Evolution Of The Prehistoric And Modern Inhabitants Of The Indian Subcontinent.

Download or read book Forging a Region written by Samira Sheikh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gujarat lies at the confluence of communities, commerce, and cultures. As the modern Indian state of Gujarat marks its fiftieth year in 2010, this book charts its coalescence into a distinct political and linguistic unit roughly five hundred years ago. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, Gujarat's cosmopolitan coastline and productive hinterland were held together in a contested unity which nurtured the political integration of the region's pastoralists, peasants, soldiers and artisans, and the evolution of the Gujarati language. Forging a Region explores the creation of Gujarat's unified identity, culminating under a lineage of sultans who united eastern Gujarat and Saurashtra by military action and economic pragmatism in the fifteenth century. Delineating the evolution of the Gujarati political order alongside networks of trade and religion, Samira Sheikh examines how Gujarat's renowned entrepreneurial ethos and dominant discourses on pacifism, vegetarianism, and austerity coexisted, then as now, with a martial pastoralist order. She argues that the religious diversity of medieval Gujarat facilitated economic and political cooperation leading to its cosmopolitan ethos. Sifting through Persian, medieval Gujarati, and Sanskrit sources, Sheikh addresses the long-term history of communities and politics in Gujarat to provide an understanding of the past and present of the region.

Download or read book Gujarat State Gazetteers Vadodara written by Gujarat (India) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dimensions of Social Life written by Paul Hockings and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gazetteers Vadodara District written by Gujarat (India) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Thakors of North Gujarat written by Lancy Lobo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the Kolis based in north Gujarat.

Download or read book The Early Wooden Temples of Chamba written by Hermann Goetz and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1955 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Biology of the Peoples of Indian Region written by M. K. Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the amount of work carried out on different population groups of Indian region, compilation of information on each of them has often been looked for. The author has done an incredible job in searching and compiling the published titles in a meaningful sequence. It is to be recommended as an essential guide for all research workers in human biology, particularly for those who want an immediate entry to the vast literature on the biology of the people of the Indian sub-continent.

Download or read book Bulletin written by Madras Institute of Development Studies and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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