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There is a lot of controversy over situating the tribals in modern Indian History. According to the Latin root, the word tribal meant only a section of people with a distinct and autonomous culture of its own. In the Roman Empire, they were never regarded segregated from the mainstream. But in colonial India the tirbals who held fast to their autonomous culture and would not conform to colonial requirements were considered wild and outside the pale of ...
The present work is primarily intended to make an endeavour to introduce an unknown but unique village, Maluti located in the interiors of Santal Parganas in Jharkhand. It had been the centre of Vajrayana Tantric Sadhana in an age when Buddhism had already been swept away from India, i.e. after the fall of the university of Vikramsila./ Not only that the village Maluti developed an unique religious culture which is the synthesis of Buddhist, Saiva and Sakta ...