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The concepts of Tribe and Tribal identity in Indian context are very complex and contested.The politics of inclusion in and exclusion from 'Scheduled Tribe ' list adds to the din at regional and national levels. The claims as well as preferences of tribes to the attributes of Adivas is in tum equated with ' indigenous people ' also are largely contested. In spite of the lack of national unanimity, the perception of the tribes of India as part' of the ...
Anthropological Survey of India ; New Delhi : Allied Publishers,
The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project on October 2, 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 communities of present-day Kerala (225) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of the survey were discussed at ...
According to current statistics and estimates, approximately 36 per cent of the people of North-East India are below the poverty level. In Meghalaya, for instance, 50 per cent of the households are below the poverty level. This, according to the editors of this volume, implies that these who live below poverty level are unable to buy enough food. In almost all the states of North-East India the availability of all the food items taken together ...