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The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project on 2nd October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of India, the impact on them of change and the development process, and the links that bring them together. As part of this all-India project the ethnographic survey of all the communities of Mizoram was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. Under the People of India project, these seventeen communities ...
After independence of India the democratic political system has been extended from the Parliament to village panchayat. The system provides scope to the eligible citizen of India to elect representatives of one's own choice in order to annex political power. The nature and extent of association of ethnic sentiment in acquiring political power and usefulness in understanding the political behaviour of the tribes have been discussed threadbare in the seven essays; ...
From the above works of various descriptions can be judged the versatile nature of the genius of their author. He was a poet, a dramatist and an astronomer. And his works bespeak the superior order of his scholarship, -- his acquaintance with the important systems of philosophy, the Upanisadas, and the Puranas; -- his close observation of society and its intricate problems:--"his delicate appreciation of the most refined feelings, his familiarity with the ...