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Dhirendra Nath Majumdar was one of the pioneers of anthropological research in India. He joined the Department of Economics & Sociology, University of Lucknow in 1928. In the course of his 32 years of academic work he created in Lucknow an exceptional centre for anthropological studies through the institutions and journals he founded. Trying to relate the basic concepts of anthropology to the general public, he popularized the concept of ‘public ...
Study conducted in Budaun, Ghaziabad, Gonda, Gorakhpur and Hardoi districts of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Since the beginning of scholarship, social thinkers and intellectuals in general have been interested in understanding the condition and predicaments of human beings, but the subject –anthropology-that was exclusively and professionally devoted to these issues came into existence in the second half of the nineteenth century. In India, before anthropology as a discipline was introduced in the university curriculum, several colonial administrators (such as ...
This book deals with the issues of development among Scheduled Tribes in India. The President of India by his special power declared some communities in various pockets of our country as Scheduled Tribes on 26 January 1950 under Article 342 of the Constitution of India. According to the recently circulated Draft of the National Policy on Tribals, there are 67.8 million Scheduled Tribe people, Comprising 8.08 per cent of India’s population. There are 698 ...