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This book shows serious studies on Caste in Bengal Border where two states Orissa and Bihar touch the district Midnapur. One will find here an analysis of vactions caste interactions at different point of time. This sort of interactions might not be found at present stage due to industrialization, urbanization but are valued information for the researches and administrators.
This book shows the gradual changing conditions of the customary law of the Austric speaking of tribal people of Frontier Bengal. It is time that due to socio-political changes their customary laws are expected to change. All these factors have been critically explained including the ethnographic account of the tribal communities namely Santal, Munda, Kheria, Mahali, Lodhas and Birhor.
The present work by India’s top-notch action anthropologist is the outcome of painstaking field work in different parts of eastern India, specially the main locale of the four tribes the Toto, Lodha, Kheria and the Birhor, those who pursue pre-agricultural economy for their existence. Various welfare measures have already been initiated to bring these groups into the mainstream of Indian life. But in actuality, there are constrains – non-responsiveness on the ...