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The Baiga tribe is one of the important tribes in India. It has a long tradition, behind it, which can be traced back to ancient times. This tribe is mainly based in Central India. Baigas can easily be described as a tribe, which has been least affected by the modern civilization. Baigas, having potential and significance demand good work on their history, culture and civilization. But, unfortunately there had been a dearth of book on this subject. This book is a ...
Leaves from the Jungle is the diary of Verrier Elwin's life in the Gond village of Karanjia between 1932 and 1936. Combining the anthropologist's powers of observation with his own humour and consummate skills as a reconteur, Elwin captures Gond life in all its gaiety and vivacity. The diary provides a colourful account of the Gonds' relationship with the forest, and exposes with charming irreverence the threat posed to this relationship by colonial forest laws. ...
This book contains some three hundred and eighty stories collected in the remote villages, largely untouched by external influence, of the hitherto little known North-East Frontier Agency of India. This great tract of mountain and forest is inhabited by people who have preserved their social organization and cultural institutions almost intact throughout the centuries. Their mythology is thus of absorbing interest, for although the motifs of some of the stories ...