Indian Tribes and the Mainstream

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Concept of Tribe The concept of tribe with special Reference to India ....................21 The peasant dimensions of Tribal Societies in India ........45 Tribe and Problem of Cultural Boundary .........53 2. The mainstream Tribes and the Mainstream of Indian Society and Culture ..............63 Concept of the Mainstream ................69 National Integration..........................77 3. Tribal Cultures of India Situating tribal women ............107 Thinking about tribal art .............124 Concept of Garasia law and Justice : Some Contradictions with state legal system ................133 Religious pluralism among the pauri Bhuinya ...........140 Medical and Health practices in Rural Rajasthan : A case study of wali .............158 Tribal Health in India : Perspectives in Medical Anthropology ....................176 History, Identity and Society among the mahali of west bengal ....................204 4. Tribal Development : Challenges Ahead the development database.........221 Anthropology of tribal Development : The kondh case .........................239 Human rights and development caused displacement .............253 Tribal Development : Agenda for Endogenous development ...................269 Tribal Development in India ...................279 5. The changing Scenario Transformation of Tribes in India .....................291 Envisioning the future of the tribal people in the new millennium ..................310 Struggle for azadi: Adivasi movements in Chhattisgarh.................320