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The present book is basically an outcome a two year long study undertaken by the author as an aftermath of the severe communal configuration which occurred in Mumbai, a few years back. Being associated with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences relief work, the author realised that relief alone is not enough to counter the phenomenon. It appears that there exists a serious misunderstanding among the middle class urbanites about the nature of religious rites ...
Sacred groves refer to patches of forests dedicated to deities often fiery ones. IN their pristine form nobody is allowed to enter into them and lift anything from these areas including leaf litter. Women are not permitted to enter these groves quite often. Sacred groves conceived this way seem to be repositories of gene prots and biodiversity and are thus considered to be part of ethnoenvironment management. The study in this book, however, dispels the myth ...
This book is basically an exploratory study of the traditional tribal medical practices which are prevalent among the autochthonous tribal population of Sikkim: the Bhutias and Lepchas who constitute about 24 per cent of the population of the State. Lepchas and Bhutias, the indigenous peoples of Sikkim, have from time immemorial adapted themselves to the vagaries of nature by evolving intricate social and cultural mechanisms. Their medicinal practices too were ...
Gujarat is a land of paradoxes. On the one hand it has produced luminaries like Akho, Sayaji Rao Gaekwad and Gandhi who tirelessly worked for the upliftment of the society and to promote peace and amity among people of all faiths; on the other, it has drawn worldwide attention for the repeated communal pogroms between Hindus and Muslims. The riots after the Godhra incident in 2002 were perhaps the most widespeared and virulent. This has led many scholars, ...