INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY (Updated & Revised) by Vijoy S. Sahay

This book meets the long felt need of a quality book on Indian Anthropology. Though written with Central Civil Services Examination Syllabus in mind, the book covers the entire gamut of Indian Anthropology-from Prehistoric past to the Present day Indian society, from the growth of Indian Anthopology to the history of tribal administration and from ancient Indian social system to the contemporary tribal culture. The book contains, interalia, an up-to-date and critical discussion on the growth of Indian Anthropology, Various concepts viz. Nature Man Spirit-Complex, Tribe-caste continuum, Great and Little Traditions, Universalization and Parochialization, Dominant Caste, Sacred Complex, Sanskritization ete, have been lucidly and comprehensively described. The discussion on Scheduled Tribes. Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes is complete and up to date. So is the presentation of demographie profile of India and Indian Population policy The book is a must for Civil Services cxaminees as well as students and teachers in anthropology, sociology and other social sciences Intelligent laymen and adeninistrators of tribel areas will find the book opening new horizons for them. This unique blend of text book and reference bonis. Starply indispensable