Indigeneity and Occupational Change
Subtitle: The Tribes of Punjab
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Sep 18, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780367335861
Description: "This book is about the presence of the absent- the tribes of Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores the occupational change across generations to prove their presence in the state before the Criminal Tribes Act was implemented in 1871. The archival reports reveal the atrocities unleashed by the colonial government on these people. The volume shows how the post-colonial government too has proved no different; it has done little to bring them into the mainstream society by not exploiting their traditional expertise or equip them with modern skills. This book will be of great interest to the scholars of sociology, social anthropology, social history, public policy, development studies, tribal communities and South Asian studies."--
Notes: Source title: Indigeneity and Occupational Change: The Tribes of Punjab