Author: Christoph von Fürer-HaimendorfPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
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The Raj Gonds of Adilabad
Author: Christoph von Fürer-HaimendorfPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
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The Raj Gonds of Adilabad
Author: Elizabeth von Fürer-HaimendorfPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Raj Gonds of Adilabad
Author: The Gonds of Andhra Pradesh
Author: Christoph von Fürer-HaimendorfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000510972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 649
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Among the tribal populations of India there is none which rivals in numerical strength and historical importance the group of tribes known as Gonds. In the late 1970s, numbering well over four million, Gonds extend over a large part of the Deccan and constitute a prominent element in the complex ethnic pattern of the zone where Dravidian and Indo-Aryan populations overlap and dovetail. In the highlands of the former Hyderabad State (now Andhra Pradesh) concentrations of Gonds persisted in their traditional lifestyle until the middle of the twentieth century: feudal chiefs continued to function as tribal heads and hereditary bards preserved a wealth of myths and epic tales. It was at that time that Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf first began his study of this group of Gonds, spending the better part of three years in their villages. While observing their daily life and their elaborate ritual performances, he also saw the threat which more advanced Hindu populations, infiltrating into the Gonds’ habitat and competing for their ancestral land, were posing to their way of life. During the thirty years prior to publication the author had frequently revisited the Gond region and in 1976-7 he undertook a detailed re-study of social and economic developments in the villages he knew best. His long-standing familiarity with many individual Gonds has allowed him to draw in this book, originally published in 1979, an intimate picture of the life of a specific village community and to trace the fates of individual men and women over a long stretch of time. While his earlier book The Raj Gonds of Adilabad: Myth and Ritual concentrated mainly on the Gonds’ mythology and ritual practices, the present volume devotes more space to a detailed analysis of the operation of social forces and the traditional structure of a society characterised by a high degree of cohesion. In 1979 the Gonds were once again being subjected to the pressure of outside forces and Professor von Fürer-Haimendorf lays special emphasis on the analysis of the process of social change forced upon the Gonds by settlers from outside. The last part of the book thus represents a case history of the transformation of a tribal society under the impact of modernisation and relentless population growth.
The Aboriginal Tribes of Hyderabad ...
Author: Christoph von Fürer-HaimendorfPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Tribes of India
Author: Christoph von Fürer-HaimendorfPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520043152
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Raj Gonds of Adilabad: A Peasant Culture of the Deccan, Book 1: Myth and Ritual, with a Foreword by K. de B. Codrington (
Author: Christoph von Fürer-HaimendorfPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 449
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The Gonds of Vidarbha
Author: Shashishekhar Gopal DeogaonkarPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180694745
Category : Gond (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Ethnographic study of the Gond tribe of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India.
The Aboriginal Tribes of Ayderabad
Author: Christoph von Fuerer-HaimendorfPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Among the Gonds of Adilabad
Author: Setumadhava Rao PagdiPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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