Title: Demographic perspectives on India's tribes /
Authors: Maharatna, Arup.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Tribes India; Demographic anthropology India.; Fertility, Human India Jharkhand Statistics.; Mortality India Jharkhand Statistics.; Santal (South Asian people) Bangladesh Social conditions.; Demographic transition India History.; India Scheduled tribes Population.; India (Jharkhand) Social conditions.
Contents: Introduction : an overview of India's tribal demography -- Material levels of living and sociocultural moorings of Indian tribes : a comparative perspective -- Tribal fertility and mortality in late ninteenth- [sic] and early twentieth-century India -- Fertility, mortality, and gender bias among Indian tribes : the contemporary scenario -- Trends of tribal demography in Jharkhand in the post-Independence period -- On the 'brighter side' of tribal mobility : a case study of Santhals in rural west Bengal -- Conclusion.