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Social scientists and more particularly Anthropologists play a crucial role in understanding the processes of social formation, their influence on the social institutions and the interrelationships with the pattern of development. Owing to these facts each study on tribal society has its distinct focus in terms of their objectives, hypotheses, kind of interpretation, and adoption of inductive and deductive reasoning, subjective and objective approaches, ...
Orissa has been quite vulnerable to natural disasters like flood, drought and cyclone in almost all the years since 1965. These have not only affected the human beings adversely but has also caused a great loss to property. The book, State, NGOs and Disaster Management analyses the impact of 1999 Super Cyclone in Orissa, on the livelihood of poor and vulnerable groups and the response of outside agencies including government and NGOs in relief, construction, ...
India harbours multiple ethic groups who have distinct socio-cultural identities. It is one of the nation-states in the world, which has provided elaborate preferential arrangements for the tribals. The tribal communities in India are at different levels of socio-economic development. In view of the deep-rooted historic reasons, which have caused the backwardness of these communities, the Indian Union as well as states are committed to ensure the implementation ...