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Next to Africa, India has the largest tribal population (67.7 million) in the world. Indian tribes, spread over the length and breadth of the country, are concentrated in hilly and forest regions. The tribes of India differ considerably from one another in race, language culture and beliefs, and present a spectacle of striking diversity. It is this diversity marked by varied social characteristics and diverse cultural traditions and linguistic traits that lends ...
Bhotia is an exclusive ethnic community, different both from the Hindus and the Tibetans who inhabit the eastern and central Himalaya regions. Traditionally and, since time immemorial, they have drawn their subsistence from trade with Tibet, thus maintaining trade links between India and Tibet. This trans-Himalayan trade of the Bhotias not only influenced their day to day life, but had an overwhelming influence on their socio-cultural life, too. Due to sudden ...
Rural development professionals, academicians and researchers in the NIRD Foundation day Seminar on 'Rural Development and Social Change' organized on 9-10 November, 2005 in National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad. These papers were presented and discussed under different themes, and provided a critical analysis of the existing pattern and emerging trends in the area of rural development and social change.