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The present book has been an outcome of the author’s initial studies in Planned Development among the Gond tribe of Central India. This was an academically unexplored area and the tribal living there had been living in isolation till 1982. The Planned Development activities in this region accelerated after the construction of a Hindu Temple. The modernization, sanskritization, hinduization etc. process started more or less simultaneously. It would not be wrong ...
This book focuses on the dynamics of change among Thakur Gonds of Central India. Because of their habitations in deep forests the Thakur Gonds have remained unexplored from the angle of their anthropological study. Though change is taking place in all human societies, its sources and processes vary. Among Thakur Gonds two prominent sources and processes of change could be observed. These include Hinduization and the construction of a big Temple of Goddess Raj ...