S.S. Shashi
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Encyclopaedia Indica is a monumental work by reputed authors which highlights all aspects of Indian history and culture. This provides elaborate discussion of science, history, philosophy and religion, art and architecture, rural wonders and urban glories, social, economic and political history starting from Indus Valley civilization to present time in a logical and chronological order. These volumes also take cognizance of the medieval period when Islam planted ...
Encyclopaedia Indica is a monumental work by reputed authors which highlights all aspects of Indian history and culture. This provides elaborate discussion of science, history, philosophy and religion, art and architecture, rural wonders and urban glories, social, economic and political history starting from Indus Valley civilization to present time in a logical and chronological order. Volumes 11-20 are devoted to Vedic Language and Literature, four Vedas, ...
Encyclopaedia Indica is a monumental work by reputed authors which highlights all aspects of Indian history and culture. This provides elaborate discussion of science, history, philosophy and religion, art and architecture, rural wonders and urban glories, social, economic and political history starting from Indus Valley civilization to present time in a logical and chronological order. Volumes 11-20 are devoted to Vedic Language and Literature, four Vedas, ...
The present book deals with the history of the ex-criminal communities and the backward classes in India. The main objective of the book is to present a board survey of the book is to present a broad survey of the depressed classes. It is a sociological fact that the criminals are not born but they are made either due to their penury or the social stigma which has been prevalent since ancient times. In fact these people had to suffer a lot in the past and are ...
Encyclopedia of World Women presents a very fascinating study and equally a fascinating subject like woman who imbibes both the masculine and feminine character-traits and is, therefore, like a man bi-sexual. She manifests these fraits, of course, disproportionately. Either she is disproportionately masculine in her mode of behaviour and hence unwomanly or disproportionately feminine and as a result unmanly. An average woman displaying these traits ...
This companion volume collection of articles , papers, excerpts, notes and commentaries attempts to bring together useful as well as interesting material on the tribal peoples of India- their ways of life, customs and traditions, cultural characteristic and artistic inheritance. More than an academic exercise, the present collection represents a vast range of sources of both published as well as unpublished material. The volumes are so structured as to be of ...
The word’Nomad’ does not, exclusively, refer to the pastoral nomads only, but also to all those persons, who constantly wander hither and thither and do not lead a settled life. They neither possess any land of their own, nor have any home, They migrate with all their belongings either on foot or on burden animals like yaks, asses or mules, ponies or horses, bullocks or buffaloes or camels or in carts, either at their will or on their being forced by ...
This first Gypso-Anthropological study of Roma-the Gypsies of the world-is the result of an extensive Socio-Anthropological Survey covering twenty five countries of Europe, America and USSR. This is a vivid account of the Banjara and other nomadic communities of India and the world. The scholar who is an eminent social scientist and a creative writer has not only applied successfully the traditional techniques of research of participant and non-participant ...
This is the first sociological study of the shepherds of India who are known as Dhangars, Kurubas, Palkshatriyas, Baghels, Kurumbas, Rabaris, Gaddis, Gwalas, Gadariyas and Yadavas or Marathas in particulars areas. Though socially and economically backward, they claim to be the decendents of the Holkar dynasty, Ahilya Bai Holkar of Indore, the Pallavas, the Maharajas of Vijaynagar and Karoli. Shepherd means a sheep-rearer; it is more a profession than a caste as ...
The "International Encyclopaedia of Social Science" contains entries varying from definition of key terms and biography of key theorists to surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes, and schools. This unique multi-volume reference encyclopaedia offers readers a similar education as that of social science researchers. It has been compiled in a way so that it remains easily accessible to general readers. This encyclopaedia has been formulated as ...