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This publication is a collection of papers on topics relating to biological anthropology. Presenting a range of data collected by surveying population groups in India, the papers deal with anthropometric dimensions, health and morbidity profiles, ageing issues, biochemical variations, dental characteristics, and demographic profiles including biological effects of population migration. They take into account various indigenous communities and other groups in the ...
The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project (POI) 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 present day Punjab (95) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of the survey were discussed at the ...