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The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India 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 ethnographic survey of all communities of Rajasthan (228) was for the first time taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of this survey were discussed at the ...
Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India 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 ethnographic survey of all communities of Rajasthan (228) was for the first time taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of this survey were discussed at the ...
An anthropologist of wide repute here profiles Ujjain : a millennia-old, pilgrim centre that has been celebrated in history, legend and mythology. Located on the eastern bank of the Sipra--in Malwas "culture-area"--in Madhya Pradesh (Central India), it is a major link in the sacred network of the Hindu India. And has been traditionally venerated all across the subcontinent as one of the barely four sites for the periodic kumbha melas (religious ...