Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal

Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal PDF Author: Edward Tuite Dalton
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal

Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal PDF Author: Edward Tuite Dalton
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Indian English Literature

Indian English Literature PDF Author: Ed. Basavaraj Naikar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788126901289
Category : Indic literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Contributed artices; covers the period 20th century.

A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Books

A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Books PDF Author: G. Philip
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Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Rise of Anthropology in India

Rise of Anthropology in India PDF Author: Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
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Category : Anthropologists
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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The Frontier in British India

The Frontier in British India PDF Author: Thomas Simpson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.

Narratives from the Margins

Narratives from the Margins PDF Author: Sanjukta Das Gupta
Publisher: Primus Books
ISBN: 9380607105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Adivasis have principally been studied in the context of rebellion, environmental history and the politics of identity. However, preoccupations with definitions and notions of identity, while important in themselves, tend to shift attention away from the inner lives of these communities. This book deals with different aspects of the histories of adivasi communities -- from Rajasthan in the west to Bengal and Orissa in the east. The essays in this book discuss a range of issues affecting the socio-economic and cultural life of adivasis and explore the long term continuities and discontinuities between different political regimes. They also reflect some of the new concerns that have come up relating to methodology and sources, historiography and colonial concerns, the impact of missionaries, gender issues, the agrarian situation, famines and migration. Some of the issues addressed in this volume are the genesis and development of 'tribal' studies in India during the colonial period; the peasantization of adivasi groups and their assimilation within the Hindu caste fold as reflected in Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas; the work of the Protestant missions among the Santals of Chotanagpur; the social and ritual relations between the Bhils and the Rajput ruling dynasties of Dungarpur in southern Rajasthan; the aspect of agrarian change among the Hos of Singhbhum; the factors behind the migration from Chotanagpur, its nature and organization and its impact upon the adivasi village community; the question of women's agency in colonial Chotanagpur; and an exploration of land rights, witchcraft, employment patterns and how women challenged patriarchy in their everyday lives; and the impact of globalisation and liberalization upon adivasis in contemporary India. The book will be of use to students and scholars of history, anthropology and sociology and also to policy-planners.

Pausanias's Description of Greece

Pausanias's Description of Greece PDF Author: Pausanias
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man

The Natural History of the Varieties of Man PDF Author: Robert Gordon Latham
Publisher: S. & J. Bentley and Henry Fley
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Example in this ebook If the simple excellence of a book were a sufficient reason for making it the only one belonging to the sciences which it professed to illustrate, few writers would be desirous of attempting a systematic work upon the Natural History of their species, after the admirable Physical History of Mankind, by the late and lamented Dr. Prichard,—a work which even those who are most willing to defer to the supposed superior attainments of Continental scholars, are not afraid to place on an unapproached eminence in respect to both our own and other countries. The fact of its being the production of one who was at one and the same time a physiologist amongst physiologists, and a scholar amongst scholars, would have made it this; since the grand ethnological desideratum required at the time of its publication, was a work which, by combining the historical, the philological, and the anatomical methods, should command the attention of the naturalist, as well as of the scholar. Still it was a work of a rising rather than of a stationary science; and the very stimulus which it supplied, created and diffused a spirit of investigation, which—as the author himself would, above all men, have desired—rendered subsequent investigations likely to modify the preceding ones. A subject that a single book, however encyclopædic, can represent, is scarcely a subject worth taking up in earnest. Besides this, there are two other reasons of a more special and particular nature for the present addition to the literature of Ethnology. I. For each of the great sections of our species, the accumulation of facts, even in the eleventh hour, has out-run the anticipations of the most impatient; indeed so rapidly did it take place during the latter part of Dr. Prichard's own lifetime, that the learning which he displays in his latest edition, is, in its way, as admirable as the bold originality exhibited in the first sketch of his system, published as early as 1821; rather in the shape of a university thesis than of a full and complete production. Thus— For Asia, there are the contributions of Rosen to the philology of Caucasus; without which (especially the grammatical sketch of the Circassian dialects) the present writer would have considered his evidence as disproportionate to his theory. Then, although matters of Archæology rather than of proper Ethnography, come in brilliant succession, the labours of Botta, Layard, and Rawlinson, on Assyrian antiquity, to which may be added the bold yet cautious criticism and varied observations of Hodgson, illustrating the obscure Ethnology of the Sub-Himalayan Indians, and preeminently confirmatory of the views of General Briggs and others as to the real affinities of the mysterious hill-tribes of Hindostan. Add to these much new matter in respect to the Indo-Chinese frontiers of China, Siam, and the Burmese Empire; and add to this the result of the labours of Fellowes, Sharpe, and Forbes, upon the monuments and language of Asia Minor. I do not say that any notable proportion of these latter investigations have been incorporated in the present work; their proper place being in a larger and more discursive work. Nevertheless, they have helped to determine those results to the general truth of which the present writer commits himself. Africa has had a bright light thrown over more than one of its darkest portions by Krapff for the eastern coast, by Dr. Beke for Abyssinia, by the Tutsheks for the Gallas and Tumalis, by the publications of the Ethnological Society of Paris, and the researches of the American and English Missionaries for many other of its ill-understood and diversified populations, especially those to the south and west. To be continue in this ebook

Pausanias's Description of Greece: Commentary on books VI-VIII : Elis (continued), Achaia, Arcadia

Pausanias's Description of Greece: Commentary on books VI-VIII : Elis (continued), Achaia, Arcadia PDF Author: Pausanias
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Pages : 476

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Pausanias's Description of Greece: Commentary on books IX, X : Boeotia, Phocis, addenda

Pausanias's Description of Greece: Commentary on books IX, X : Boeotia, Phocis, addenda PDF Author: Pausanias
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Category : Greece
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Pages : 676

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