Prasad birendra (255 risultati)

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Soft cover. Condizione: New. Sautar is an indigenous tribe residing mainly in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. Sautars belong to the Proto-Australoid racial group. Both men and women of the Sautar community are masters in archery. They are often considered a martial community by the masses. Since they are skilled fighters, they were often hired by the commoners during fights. Due to this practice, several Sautars were killed. In Bihar, Sautar is one of the major communities, forming a majority of the state's tribal population. The Sautar mostly speak Sautari, a member of the Munda language family. In Bihar, the Sautars are mostly landless. Though, some people from the tribe engage themselves in agriculture. This community has fallen prey to ignorance in the process of socialisation. The ignorance of the Sautar community developed gradually when most of their people were converted to Christianity. Some also became followers of Chauvinism. Due to this religious conversion, their original beliefs and culture got destroyed. In the cultural structure of India, the cultural identity and values of Sautars were ignored. This book is an attempt by the author to present the few aspects and facts behind the problems being faced by this community. …

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithil plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Ma]thas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century ad; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil­grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal.…

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Soft cover. Condizione: New. India is a distinct country with true foundation in its villages. From ancient times to the digital era, rural India has preserved rich cultural transitions, collective values, timeless Economic systems and indigenous knowledge systems that continue to shape the nation's rich identity. This book takes an in-depth look at anthropological exploration of rural and village life in India connecting foundation with contemporary rural realities, based on historical documented sources and comprehensive methodical fieldwork, the challenges faced by rural society as a living system of culture, knowledge and resilience, while examining the challenges faced in a globalised world economy. Through a chronological exploration, this book aims to understand the evolution and social dynamics, livelihood strategies and unique cultural wealth of rural pluralistic society of enduring spirit to calibrate the resilience of modern economic growth. Changing agrarian structures with globalisation resulted in a paradigm shift in society. Sustainable and inclusive development requires policies that balance economic integration with preservation of diverse cultures, ecological sustainability and social justice. This book invites policymakers, academicians, researchers, scholars and readers to understand and appreciate the dynamics of rural India.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9788176222914.

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