Tribe, Caste, and Nation. A study of political activity and political change in highland Orissa
by Bailey, F. G
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0719002508
- ISBN 13
- 9780719002502
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1971) 0719002508. 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. xii + 279, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn and sunned; trace of foxing to edges and endpapers. Very good condition. "This book continues and expands the scope of the author's Caste and the Economic Frontier (1957), which described economic and political changes in an Oriya village, Bisipara, during the past hundred years. The present study, covering a longer period of time, discusses the social organization of a famous Indian tribal people, the Konds of Orissa, in the midst of whose territory the Oriya village of Bisipara lies." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12195
- Title
- Tribe, Caste, and Nation. A study of political activity and political change in highland Orissa
- Author
- Bailey, F. G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0719002508
- ISBN 13
- 9780719002502
- Publisher
- (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1971) 0719002508
- Place of Publication
- Manchester, Uk
- This edition first published
- June 1971
- Keywords
- India. Ethnology Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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