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Mobile, and marginalized peoples : perspectives from the past / edited by Rudolf C. Heredia, Shereen F. Ratnagar.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nomads--India.
- Nomads.
- Pastoral systems.
- Herders.
- India.
- Herders--India.
- Pastoral systems--India.
- India--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 236 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Manohar, 2003.
- Summary:
- Contributed papers presented earlier at a workshop.
- Contents:
- Reconstructing identity, preserving dignity : the struggle of the nomadic pastoralists / Rudolf C. Heredia
- Between two worlds: the trader pastoralists of Kinnaur / Chetan Singh
- In the name of pastoralism: the early medieval Maharashtra / Ajay Dandekar
- Mobility, and craft production / Jaya Menon
- In the absence of mounds: shifting villages, pastoralism, and depopulation / Supriya Varma
- The Bhils in the historic settings of Western India / Nandini Sinha Kapur
- Reinterpreting tribal survival: the Baiga of the Central Provinces, 1730-1900 / Archana Prasad
- From pastoralism to agriculture: Tondai Nadu, a Tamil Sub-Region in the early historical, and early medieval periods / R. Champakalakshmi.
- Notes:
- "Proceedings of a workshop held in December 1998 at the Ishvani Kendra, Pune organized by the Sontheimer Cultural Association and the Social Science Centre, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with financial assistance from the Life Insurance Corporation, Pune.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 817304497X
- OCLC:
- 54073405
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