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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. The relevance of the past: from Sir William Jones to Amartya Sen/K. Paddayya. 2. Indian prehistory viewed against recent theories of dispersal of man/D.K. Bhattacharya. 3. Fishing communities in South and South-East Asia/Himanshu Prabha Ray. 4. Urban and non-urban culture levels revealed by the archaeological remains of Varanasi/Vidula Jayaswal. 5. Gene differentiation among Karnataka populations/M.R. Gangadhar and S.C. Jai Prabhakar. 6. Colonial impact on ecological and social diversity in India and its consequences/Subhadra Mitra Channa. 7. Sowing the seeds of diversity: food sovereignty and globalisation in India/Miriam Sharma and Elizabeth Louis. 8. Language maintenance and language shift: a case of the Jewish community in the west and the east/Pratibha Bhattacharya. 9. The oraon cycle of time: an anthropological study of diversities through Birth practices/Abhik Ghosh. 10. Redefining Khasi boundaries: absorption of globalising tendencies within Khasi culture/Shamila Ghosh. 11. Local self-Government (LSG) in Nagaland: a study of organisational diversity among the Nagas/Jonali Devi. 12. Urban factor in culture of a traditional community/Shabeena Yasmin Saikia. 13. Ethnic divide and the imperatives of development in North-East India/Kamal K. Misra. 14. Critical nutritional stress among adult tribal populations of West Bengal and Orissa, India/Kaushik Bose and Samiran Bisai. 15. Human diversity and some epidemiological studies/R.P. Srivastava. 16. Greying of populations and feminisation of ageing: challenges faced by ageing women/Amrita Bagga. 17. Constructing a non-Brahmin culture: assessing the efforts of E.V. Ramasami/Debi Chatterjee. 18. Immigrants and cultural diversity: Indian urban context/Sumita Chaudhuri. 19. Social anthropological requisites of India s development: a case approach/Asoke Basu. 20. Diversity and development in Bangladesh: current status and future tasks/Dalem Ch. Barman. 21. The present bio-diversity and natural phenomenon in North-Eastern region of Bangladesh/Abdul Awwal Biswas. 22. Ethnic, social and cultural diversities of Bhutan a Himalayan State of South Asia/Sekh Rahim Mondal. 23. Struggling identities: Vanniyalettto (Vedda) of Sri Lanka/David Bluendell.