Home » 'Criminal' Tribes of Punjab
Product Image

'Criminal' Tribes of Punjab

€47.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
act
anand
Anand Karaj
Banyan Tree
Bhog Ceremony
British census impact India
caste marginalisation
castes
Category=GTM
Category=JBSL
Category=JHMC
Category=NHTB
colonial ethnography
Cow Dung
Criminal Tribes
Criminal Tribes Act
denotified communities
desi
Desi Ghee
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Fi Rst Hair Cut
Fi Ve
Ficus Bengalensis
ghee
Gurdaspur District
Guru Granth Sahib
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Janda
karaj
maternal
mustard
Mustard Oil
Non-vegetarian Food
oil
Play Things
Pradhan
Pucca Houses
Punjab anthropology
Sans Mal
scheduled
Scheduled Castes
scheduled tribe activism
Semi-pucca Houses
Sikh Religion
social exclusion studies
Unboiled Milk
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367176556
  • Weight: 249g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description
One of the important projects launched by the British government in the late 19th century was the preparation of a detailed census of the demographic profile of the Indian population across the country. Unable to understand the cultural pluralism that characterizes Indian unity in variety, the census was riddled with problems of definition and cate
About

Birinder Pal Singh is Professor of Eminence, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. He has a doctorate from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and an MPhil from the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1993�1995). His research areas cover tribal, peasant and other communities and the sociology of violence. He has published the books Economy and Society in the Himalayas: Social Formation in Pangi Valley (1996); Problem of Violence: Themes in Literature (1999); Violence as Political Discourse: Sikh Militancy Confronts the Indian State (2002); Criminal Tribes of Punjab: A Social-Anthropological Inquiry (edited, 2010); and Punjab Peasantry in Turmoil (edited, 2010). He has also published several research papers including in Sikh Formations, Economic and Political Weekly, Gandhi Marg and Journal of Punjab Studies.