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...David Kopf The Dust-Storm and the Hanging Mist: A Study of Birsa Munda and His Movement in Chotanagpur (1874–1901) . By Suresh Singh . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1966 . xxiv, 208 , 179 pp. Glossary, Photographs, Notes and References, Bibliography, Appendices, Index. Rs. 30.00...

...Anna P. McCormack Culture Change in Tribal Bihar: Munda and Oraon . By Sachchidananda . Calcutta, Allahabad, Patna : Bookland Private Limited , 1964 . 5, 158 , Illustrations, Tables, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index, Research Programmes Committee List of Published Reports. Rs...

... the incorporation of regional and folk elements. Without going into questions of pre-Vedic or Indus Valley cultures, or the problem of contributions by Munda, Austric, Dravidian, and Mongoloid, data can be found in Sanskrit literature which help to illuminate Hindu sociology, religion, and the arts during...

... JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES offer the reader a valuable introduction to the Munda style of life. On a conceptual level, the real import of the work lies in Dr. Singh's perspective on nineteenth century Indian renaissances. By stressing the common denominator of Western intrusion upon all non-Western cultures...

...-Storm and the Hanging Mist: A Study of Birsa Munda and His Movement in Chotanagpur (1874-1901). BY SURESH SINGH. Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1966. xxiv, 208, 179 pp. Glossary, Photographs, Notes and References, Bibliography, Appendices, Index. Rs. 30.00. The process of revitalization...

... opinion, and is spiced with insights of his own. The reader who already understands Munda and Oraon culture and social organization will find it a worthwhile vehicle for updating his knowledge. For the uninformed reader, the book may be opaque. The author favored particular "factors" and "forces...

... in the countryside over which they were overlords. Thus, we still await the definitive study of Sher Shah and his India. University of Minnesota BURTON STEIN Culture Change in Tribal Bihar: Munda and Oraon. By SACHCHIDANANDA. Calcutta, Allahabad, Patna: Bookland Private Limited, 1964. 5, 158, Illustrations, Tables...

..., and the developmental state overlap to produce an ethno-regionalist vision which conceptualizes indigent Mundas as eco-savages and articulates a civilizing mission that shrinks the space for radical politics and effectively reproduces conditions for capitalist extraction and accumulation. While this may seem a fairly...

... to the list. Linguistically members of the Munda family, the Saoras have a fairly wide distribution in Orissa, Madras, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar, where they have for the most part become assimilated to the local population as regards both language and culture. However, in the hilly districts of Koraput...

... a “clothes reading” of Syrian Christian women's sartorial choices over the last few centuries, during which the standard three-piece garment (of thuni/munda, chatta, and kavani ), which clearly identified the wearer as Syrian Christian, gave way first to the sari and then to the churidar (or salwar...

... including the Santhal, Ho, Munda, Oraon, and Chero) have been affected by long-term historical, political, and economic relations with caste communities, the British Raj, and the modern Indian state. The book begins by situating the study against a theoretical background derived partly from Engels's...

... the adivasi groups (who belong to several different named communities including the Santhal, Ho, Munda, Oraon, and Chero) have been affected by long-term historical, political, and economic relations with caste communities, the British Raj, and the modern Indian state. The book begins by situating the study...

... throughout is largely descriptive and pseudo-historical, the data arranged to some extent along a kind of guarded evolutionary gradient, from the "early" or "purely" Oraon magico-religious practices to those characterized by "borrowing" from the Oraons' Munda and Hindu neighbors. Although the reader may...

... evolutionary gradient, from the "early" or "purely" Oraon magico-religious practices to those characterized by "borrowing" from the Oraons' Munda and Hindu neighbors. Although the reader may detect in certain passages some evidence of Malinowski's influence, this is never made explicit, and on the whole Roy...

.... Already the language of the Rgveda contains non-Indo-European elements innovations possibly due to influences of other languages spoken in India at the time of the Aryan invasion, i.e., in particular (Pre-)Dravidian and (Pre-)Munda. The continued existence of a Dravidian language, Brahul, in Balucistan...

.... Bowles' material is presented in the context of testirig out a theory of relationships between Munda and MonKmer peoples which, on his own showing, had little justification to start with. Andrews alone, and his paper differs so much from the others as to 296 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY seem virtually out...

... with Dravidian and Munda patterns" (p. 118) (nor does Bloch say this). There are few typographical errors, but more thorough editing would have improved certain parts of the text. These blemishes are minor, however, compared with the service the authors have rendered in bringing together this widely scattered...

... suffered from sleeping sickness, and Ravana was a Siamese dectuplet. LOWER STRATA, OLDER RACES AND ABORIGINAL PEOPLES 431 groups for electoral purposes before the Patna High Court in 1974, for instance, submitted that Nagbanshis are of Aryan race whereas the Mundas are of Kolarian race; the mother tongue...

... were once designated as "backward," "savage," or "head-hunting" tribes by capitalist strangers abound in modern Indian history. The cases in point are the Santhals, the Mundas, the Nagas, the Garos, the Khasis, the Mizos, and more recently the Bodos of Assam. AMALENDU K. CHAKRABORTY University...

... to 1920 "alien domination" brought about the slow but steady disintegration of the old tribal social order among the Santals, Mundas, and Oraons of eastern India. Two essays, by Atiya Habeeb Kidwai and Meera Kosambi, detail the dramatic character of the colonial impact on India's urban sector, marked...