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Traditionally, the Baltis are believed to be descendants of Celtic communities settled in Scandinavia. When the water level in the Baltic Sea rose and inundated their arable lands, they were forced to flee the area. Even after the flood subsided, the land appeared to be unusable for agriculture, having been heavily saturated with mineral salts. Migration started in many directions. The Baltis of Ladakh are related to many other communities in Kazakstan, Russia ...
The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project of 2 October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of India, the impact on them of change and development process and the links that bring them together. As part of this all-India project the first ever ethnographic survey of all communities of present day Jammu & Kashmir state (111) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of the survey ...
It is a pioneering work in tribal ethnography on Hill Korwas of Chhatisgarh - a primitive tribe practising food-gathering, hunting and shifting cultivation. The research-based work describes the tribe in an analytical frame of reference covering the first 25 years of India’s independence. It is a methodical analysis of not only the economic structure but also the social and ritual life of the Hill Korwas. The origin of the tribe has been described with its ...
The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India (POI) Project on 2 October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of India, the impact on them of change and development process and the links that bring them together. As part of this All-India Project the first ever ethnographic survey of all communities of Uttar Pradesh (307) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of the survey were discussed at the ...