Hetukar Jha
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The Essays In This Volume Present The Contributions Of Distinguished Social Scientist And Historians With Insightful Discussions And Analysis Of Caste, Class, Tribe, Their Inter-Relationship And Of Region As Well As The Approach Of Regional History. Topics Include Caste In Itself, Society And Culture Of The Tribal World In Colonial Eastern India, Varna Ratnakara And Its Ethnography.
The book deals with the image of "man" that was posited in the medieval period when north Indian society was beset with crisis due to the internal conflict of sectarian ideologies as well as the onslaught of the Islamic politico-religious power. This state of socio-cultural and political situation was perceived by Vidyapati, a great poet and statesman of Mithila (north-eastern part of Bihar) in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century, as that of ...
The People of India Bihar volume includes Jharkhand because at the time of fieldwork and report writing, Jharkhand was part of Bihar state. Therefore, for the purpose of critical evaluation, the data on Bihar and Jharkhand have been combined. The relationship between the ecology and communities in these areas is evident from the dependence of the communities on land (189), forest (34) and water (22). Land is the main resource and is controlled individually. Other ...
The People of India Bihar volume includes Jharkhand because at the time of fieldwork and report writing, Jharkhand was part of Bihar state. Therefore, for the purpose of critical evaluation, the data on Bihar and Jharkhand have been combined. The relationship between the ecology and communities in these areas is evident from the dependence of the communities on land (189), forest (34) and water (22). Land is the main resource and is controlled individually. Other ...