There are many variants of social anthroplogy. The Indian variant is a combination of British social anthropology and Indian sociology. Of late the combination has also affected the methodology. It is argued that the students of social anthropology cannot be served by yesterday’s social anthropology which is only a state recipe. The Present work is a revisit to the contemporary situation of tribals in India. For the first time a book on the strength of empirical evidence establishes that the Indian tribals constitute a distinct type of society. This type is, of course, neither a Hindu society, nor a Christian one. It is a society which has its own ethnic, historical and cultural identity. The official tribal policy, tribal movements and other aspects of primitive life have been critically examined in this book. It also looks at Indian social anthroplogy from new conceptual, theoretical and fieldwork insights.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P C Jain
P.C. Jain obtained his Master's degree in economics, History and Political Science from Agra University, and Ph.D. on the History of the Hindu Society in Pre-mutiny nineteenth century. He is a versatile genius and widely-read scholar. He is head of the Department of History in a P.G. College of the Rohilkhand University. Dr. Jain has contributed many articles to reputed journals. He has attended various state and national conferences on social sciences. He is widely travelled and has minutely studied the life and manners of the people of different places from a sociological as well as historical point of view. At present he is engaged in rewriting the regional and social history of the present state of Uttar Pradesh.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Doshi
S.L. Doshi has taught sociology at the M.L. Sukhadia University, udaipur and South Gujarat University, Surat. He is also a Visiting Professor at M.D. University, Rohtak. Dr. Doshi has written, co-authored and edited more than two dozen books including Modernity, Postmodernity and Neo-sociological Theory, Rural Sociology, Social Anthropology and Tribal Ethnicity, Class and Integration.
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