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Omschrijving
This book is about the tribes of Punjab, India. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it will be of great interest to the scholars ofsocial anthropology, public policy, development studies, tribal communities and South Asian studies.
Birinder Pal Singh is Professor of Eminence in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Punjabi University, Patiala, India, where he joined as lecturer in 1976. He was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1993–1995). His areas of study include tribal and peasant communities, and the sociology of violence. His publications include: Economy and Society in the Himalayas: Social Formation in Pangi Valley (1996); Problems of Violence: Themes in Literature (1999); Violence as Political Discourse: Sikh Militancy Confronts the Indian State (2002); Punjab Peasantry in Turmoil (ed.) (2010); ‘Criminal’ Tribes of Punjab: A Social- Anthropological Inquiry (ed.) (2010) and Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India (2018) He has about 70 research papers and articles, and has worked on seven research projects.