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In recent years the Harijan problem has become very acute in India's social and political life. The problem of caste and untouchability has been discussed from various viewpoints, not always with due impartiality and a thorough knowledge of the facts. It gives a new explanation for the origin of caste and untouchability, dating it back to the pre-Indian past of the Aryans and Dravidians. It contributes greatly to a better knowledge of the Harijans by a short ...
The book is meant to give a concise yet full introduction to the physical origin of man and the early history of his culture. In it Anthropology is treated as a historical discipline, since the course of cultural development is to a large extent subject to man's will and creativity. But the functional, sociological and psychological methods of dealing with the whole range of Anthropological data are thereby not rejected or ignored. The book tries to show how ...
Ever since the highly civilised powers took it in mind, to "colonise" primitive peoples and to "uplift" them culturally, their efforts, even if well intended, turned disastrous for the colonised. The actual results were wholesale oppression and exploitation, even physical annihilation. The surviving primitive peoples usually suffered a complete break-down of their original culture and a total confusion of their traditional values. But after a ...