Anthropology of Primitive Tribes in India

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The Scheduled Tribe Groups who were identified as more backward communities among the tribal population groups have been categorized as ‘Primitive Tribal Groups’ (PTGs) by the Government at the Centre in 1975. So far seventy-five tribal communities have been identified as ‘primitive tribal groups’ in different States of India. These hunting, food-gathering, and some agricultural communities, who have been identified as more backward communities among the tribal population groups need special programmes for their sustainable development. The primitive tribes are awakening and demanding their rights for special reservation quota for them. The thirty articles presented in this volume give an idea about the situation prevailing among the primitive tribes in India. The majority of the primitive tribal population groups in India are in perpetual poverty and stands much below the poverty line, suffering from an alarming malnutrition and high illiteracy. The government must take initiative more seriously, sincerely, and effectively to create sustainable development programmes among them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR P. Dash Sharma

P. Dash Sharma, Ph.D., (Delhi), is retired Professor of Anthropology of the University of Ranchi. He served at the Office of the Registrar General of India, New Delhi, from 1965-70, and then as research associate in the anthropological Survey of India, at the Southern Regional Centre at Mysore. He joined the department of anthropology at the University of Ranchi in the middle of 1972. His active service at the university of Ranchi spans a period of more than twenty-seven years. He has published more than 150 research articles in various national and international journals, and in edited volumes, on various aspects ranging from physical anthropology, ethnographic studies, human genetics, health and nutrition, environmental and developmental studies, among the tribes of north-east India and Chotanagpur. He has authored one text book on human evolution, and has three books to his credit as an editor. He is the founder editor of the journals South Asian Anthropologist, which is being published as the official organ of Sarat Chandra RoyInstitute of Anthropological Studies, Ranchi, since 1980.

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Title
Anthropology of Primitive Tribes in India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8183870074
Length
xxxiv+647p., Tables; Figures; References; Index; 22cm.
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