Bastar Dispatches - A Passage Through the Wilds

Abujhmad in the deep interiors of Bastar is inhabited by the Abujhmadias, a primitive hunter-gatherer tribe whom Verrier Elwin has called the Hill Murias. Abujhmad stands today as one of the few mirrors left the world over wherein modernity can view itself - its calamities and collapses. Abujhmad asks no questions of itself nor provides answers;...

About the author

Narendra's association with tribal communities commenced in 1980 when he began living in the Abujhmad region of Bastar under a field-research programme of the United Nations University and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is the author of Bastar Dispatches: A Passage Through the Wilds.

Product details

• Authors: Narendra
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.07.2018
• EAN: 9789353020323
• ISBN: 978-93-5302-032-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 372 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)