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The Sole objective of this Encyclopaedic ethnography is to present the descriptive summaries of 279 Himalayan tribes which range from a few lines to twenty pages in length. Each entry deals with the physical, historical, social, political, economic, religious and cultural life of Himalayan tribes. Himalayan region which is the meeting place of international borders of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, India, Nepal and Tibet. Here we focus on the ways of living of ...
The sole objective of this Encyclopaedia is to explore the descriptive summaries-off 188 ethnic groups written by noted scholars which range from a few lines to ten pages in length. Each entry deals with the physical, historical, social, political, economic, religiouis and cultural information about the ethnic groups of 14 South-east Asian countries: Burma, Brunel, Cambodia, East Timor, Hongkong, Indonesia, Laos, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. We have ...
The Chipko Movement is often treated as a movement to protect the forest and ecological system of Himalayan region of the Uttarakhand from the axes of the contractors. But the reasons behind people participation are more economic than ecological. In fact, the economic and ecological interests of Uttarakhand are so interwoven that it is difficult to promote one without promoting other. In this book an attempt has been made to explain the reasons behind people ...