The People of the Himalayas Bio Cultural and Ecological Aspects

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Cultural perspective: 1. Society and culture among the people of Himalayan border area/B.R. Ghosh. 2. Religious attributes and social structure among the Ladakhis/R.S. Mann. 3. Buddhist Muslim interaction in Kargil (district : Ladakh)/B.R. Rizvi. 4. Social stratification in Tabo : study of a village of Spiti, Himachal Pradesh/B.R. Rizvi. 5. Continuity and change of the Lahauli culture : a cross cultural analysis/T.K. Ghosh. 6. Society and religion in Kinnaur/Manis Kumar Raha. 7. Socio-economic study of a village in Chamba district : structure and change/Rajendra Sarkar. 8. Religious practices in Uttarkashi Society/Jitendra Singh. 9. Transhumant population of Central Himalayas : structure and change/S.S. Sastry. 10. Cohesion and conflict in a Himalayan village : a study in the perspective of inter-caste relation/Jagadish Chandra Das. 11. Segmentation and stratification among the Loi of Manipur/N.C. Choudhury and B.K. Das Gupta. 12. Hierarchy and ethnic identity in a frontier area/R.K. Saha. 13. The Drukpas of North Sikkim and Darjeeling : differential socio-economic adaptations and cultural variations/S.B. Nandi. II. Ecological perspective: 1. Human adaptation in the Tons Valley/Ramji Gupta. 2. Ecology, economy and ethnic consciousness : a study on impact of ecology on tribes of Arunachal Pradesh/Jayanta Sarkar. 3. Arunachal Pradesh--a study in ecology, demography and land use/Parmanand Lal. III. Linguistic perspective: 1. The impact of ecology and culture on the speech of the Bhotiyas/G.M. Trivedi. 2. Language indentity and linguistic situation along the North-Eastern Border/Shree Krishan. 3. Language situation in Tripura : a study of tribal bilingualism/Syamsundar Bhattacharya. 4. Socio-linguistic survey of the Darjeeling Himalayan area/A.R. Das. IV. Psychological perspective: 1. Inter-ethnic comparison of value orientation and modernity : a relevance for social change among the Marcha and the Jad/S.C. Panchbhai. V. Biological perspective: 1. Population dynamics of Central and Western Himalayas/R.S. Negi. 2. Genogroups in Central and Western Himalayas/A.C. Srivastava. Appendix: A brief ethnographic account of Nagaland/N.K. Das.