Mobile and Marginalized Peoples: Perspectives from the Past - Hardcover

Rudolf C. Heredia; Shereen F. Ratnagar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 817304497X ISBN 13: 9788173044977

Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2004

Synopsis

The specific themes covered in this volume are modernisation and the victimisation of the disadvantaged; nomadic pastoralism and tribal organisation as separate from the state; the rise of chiefships or states in regions where it was pastoralism rather than agriculture that produced wealth; artisanal mobility and the kinds of crafts produced by pastoralists; the desertions of agrarian settled regions in the past; the forms of incorporation of tribal society into feudal states; shifting cultivation and its relationships with peasantry and local markets; and the gradual changes effected in pastoral society in early Tamilakam. This volume is based on a symposium sponsored by the Social Science Centre, which is engaged in action-oriented participatory research on issues of current concern. Its publications include Tribal Education for Community Development (1989); and Tribal Identity and Minority Status: The Katkari Nomads in Transition (1994).

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About the Author

Rudolf C. Heredia has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago and is the founder of the Social Science Centre, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 817304497X
• ISBN 13: 9788173044977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236