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100			_aSingh, Birinder Pal
245			_aIndigeneity and occupational change _bThe tribes of Punjab
260			_bRoutledge _c2020 _aNew York
300			_axi, 217p.
504			_aInclude References and Index
520			_aThis book is about the presence of the absent— the tribes of Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores the occupational change across generations to prove their presence in the state before the Criminal Tribes Act was implemented in 1871. The archival reports reveal the atrocities unleashed by the colonial government on these people. The volume shows how the post-colonial government too has proved no different; it has done little to bring them into the mainstream society by not exploiting their traditional expertise or equipping them with modern skills. This book will be of great interest to scholars of sociology, social anthropology, social history, public policy, development studies, tribal communities and South Asian studies.
650			_aEthnology _vPanjabis (South Asian people)--Ethnic identity _vReligion _vCaste _vTribes _zIndia _zPunjab
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