Languages and Scripts (People Of India)

This comprehensive survey of India's languages shows that Indian languages are largely derivative of the ethnic community or territory where the language is used, and describes how languages are distributed into different language families. The authors suggest that in language-contact situations the incidence of bilingualism is extremely high: it is not uncommon for tribals to speak up to four languages, and despite the dominance of a regional language, all of the States and Union Territories are multilingual. As a result of this multilingual character, language evolution in India is quite dynamic. This volume, part of the People of India project, forms the first comprehensive and definitive database of the languages and scripts used by communities all over India.

Singh, K. S.

Manoharan, S.

Oxford University Press

This volume, an important part of the massive People of India project, presents a quantitative profile of Indian society in terms of selected cultural traits. It presents 392 cultural traits, divided into six parts: identity, ecology, social organization, economy and occupation, linkages, and development processes. This volume highlightrs the spatial distribution of cultural trits across the states and union territories of India, revealing heterogeneity, distribution and linkages at both the local and regional levels. It is an important reference for all anthropologists, sociologists, and human geographers.

Identity, Ecology, Social Organization, Economy, Linkages and Development Process: A Quantitative Profile of India (People Of India)

History

Asia

This revised volume provides an updated introduction and summation of the much-acclaimed People of India project, the first pan-Indian ethnographic study to generate a brief, descriptive anthropological profile of all the communities of India.

People of India: An Introduction (People of India National Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Tribal Society in India: An Anthropo-Historical Perspective

South Asia Books

The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project (POI) on 2 OCtober 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of India, the impact on them of change and development process and the links that bring them together. As part of this study, this ethnographic survey of all communities of present day Punjab (95) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of this survey were discussed at the workshops held at Dehradun in November 1985 and October 1987 and at Patiala in August 1989, and published here.

People Of India: Punjab (People Of India National Series)

Manohar Pubns

People of India: An Introduction (National Series, Vol 1)

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