Tribes of India: the struggle for survival (Record no. 45500)

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Classification number 307.7 FUR
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Personal name Furer Haimendorf, Von Christoph
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Title Tribes of India: the struggle for survival
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1992
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Extent 342p.
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Summary, etc. More than forty million Indians belong to tribal communities distinct from the great mass of Hindu caste society. They are the aboriginal races - older on Indian soil than the Vedic Aryans and even the Dravidian architects of ancient South Indian civilizations. For thousands of years tribal folk lived undisturbed in hills and densely wooded regions unattractive to the peasantry of more dynamic populations. Many spoke, and still speak, tribal languages not understood by the politically dominant people, and they follow archaic customs foreign to Hindus and Muslims alike.<br/><br/>Though there was limited contact between the denizens of hills and jungles and the Hindu villagers of the open plains in some areas, in the absence of competition for scarce resources such contact seldom led to friction. A dramatic change in this peaceful coexistence occurred when improved communications opened up previously inaccessible tribal areas and rapid growth of the Indian population led to pressure on the land's resources. In the past forty years most of the tribal societies have come under attack by economically more advanced and politically more powerful ethnic groups, who infiltrated into tribal regions in search of land and new economic possibilities. These population movements triggered a struggle for land in which the aboriginal tribesmen were usually the losers and, deprived of their ancestral land, turned into impoverished landless labourers.<br/><br/>Tribes of India analyzes this process of expropriation and oppression in selected tribal areas, mainly in the state of Andhra Pradesh, where in the 1940s the author was in charge of tribal affairs while in the service of Hyderabad State. His detailed knowledge of many tribal groups, whose fortunes he observed over four decades, gives him unique insight into the forces which are bringing about the alarming erosion of tribal liberty and prosperity.<br/>The tribes are holding their own and even have benefitted from the contact with modern civilization in only one region. In Arunachal Pradesh, the territory in the ex treme northeast corner of India, tribes form the majority of the population and are largely managing their own affairs. The author explored that region in 1944 and 1945, and on several return visits he has observed the transition from a primitive society to one in which modernization has progressed much faster than in Peninsular India.<br/>While Fürer-Haimendorf adopts a diachronic approach when discussing the overall development of tribal societies during the past forty years, the authors of two contributions, Michael Yorke and Jayaprakash Rao, describe the present situation in two areas of Andhra Pradesh, illustrating with case histories the effect of economic and cultural change on individual communities.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Tribes India
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