TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birinder Pal Singh,
TI  - Indigeneity and occupational change: the tribes of Punjab 
SN  - 9780367335861
AV  - DS432.P232 P57 2020
U1  - 305.5688/SIN 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge Taylor and Francis
KW  - Panjabis (South Asian people)
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - India
KW  - Punjab
KW  - Caste
KW  - Punjab (India)
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Presence of the Absent: An Introduction -- Punjab and its people -- Tribal communities in the Colonial Punjab -- Tribal communities in the Post-Colonial Punjab -- Socio-economic Profile of the Tribal Communities in Punjab -- Occupations of the Tribal Communities -- Intergenerational Occupational Change -- In Lieu of Conclusion
N2  - "This 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 equip them with modern skills. This book will be of great interest to the scholars of sociology, social anthropology, social history, public policy, development studies, tribal communities and South Asian studies."--
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