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100			_aSingh, K.S.
245		0	_aEthinicity, identity and development: the fourth Verrier Elwin memorial lecture, 1985 the North-Eastern hill university, Shillong 12-14 Sep.1985
260			_aNew Delhi _bManohar _c1990
300			_a44p.
520			_aThis series of lectures to begin with stresses the importance of the North East as an emerging area of intensive research and evaluates the role of Verrier Elwin in the development of tribal people. Then it proceeds to address questions like, why and how the ethnic siudies here suddenly become important, how the concept of assimilation of all communities has given way to those of pluralism and integration, and how societies in the 'Third' and 'Fourth' worlds have faced up to the problems of ethnicity in the process of nation building The last set of questions relates to the application of the theories of ethnicity to the Indian situation and recognition of tribal people as an ethnic category and of ethnicity as a factor in tribal planning and development. The last dimension needs to be explored further in order to make development process meaningful for people. Ethnicity is important as a tool of understanding a community and its aspirations but it has its limits too.
650			_aSocial Stratification
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