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India is an ocean of castes, creeds, cultures, religions, customs, philosphies and ideologies. This set is a vast and magnificient work about the people of this land. This work is a seris of finest collection of reprints and original works of enduring value offering a panoramic view of the golden age of ethnology, ethnography, cultural and social anthropology, constituting a fundamental library for the indian sub-continent, 74 volumes.This series, a finest collection of reprints and original works of enduring value offers panoramic overview of the golden age of ethnography and cultural and social anthropology, constituting a fundamental library for india and this continent. The great importance and enormous amount of endeavour displayed both Indian and European scholars, on all subjects relating to indan ananthropology resulted in the form of germs that serve as an adquate medium of communication and information for the different provinces of India from all over the world on ethnography, cultural and social anthropology, religion, ammerns and customs, folklore, tribal fabric, ethnic distribution etc, of india and the neighbouring countries. The subjects mentioned above may sound numerous but they are all related to one another so far as the knowledge of all aspects of man in india are concerned. The wide range and variety of subjects dealt with in these volumes presents a panoramnic view of the civilisation and culture of this conent. The work includes painstaking studies of the religions and the inhabitants of India by crooke, dalton, ethnoven, sherring, russeel and hiralal, etc covering the living tribes and castes of specific regions. Authors like powell, dey, hunter, darling, thurston, shukla, ayyar have contributed on specific themes such as a peasant life, and village social structure; it also includes such valuable ethnographic studies such as that of endle, gurdon, kar, dutta, maitra, Sharma etc on the fascinating inhabitants of the hill areas and of the himalayas. The range does not leave out even the ethnography of the friendly neighbouring countries with intensive interaction with india like nepal and tibet and not in the least, an in-depth documentation on the parsis. The series includes classical works like chander on tibet, chandra on indo-aryan races, bhattacharya on north west india, dutta on wild tribes, pal on religious sects, ibbeston on punjab castes, martin on eastern india and metcalf on rajpoot tribes, indeed this tyupe of offer is trend settling and perhaps, the first of its kind in india.BN 81-7020-455-0, pages 25000l. Size 14 22 cm, 17 25 cm, 22 28 cm, special cloth binding with gold printing and embossing, index, illustratiohns, maps, figures, bibliographies, appenddix.
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