Author: Danda, Dipali G.
Title: Among the Dimasa of Assam. An Ethnographic Study
Description: New Delhi, Sterling Publishers, (1978). orig. cloth, dustwrapper. xi,192,(8)pp, 22x14cm, Includes textual maps,tables, 2 folding kinship charts + 8pp photoplates.. 8pp photoplates. Minor rubbing, VG, in a torn & rubbed dustwrapper. ¶ Study of the Dimasa people, one of the Kachari tribes of the United Mikir &North Cachar Hills District of eastern Assam [Northeastern India]. Contents: Historical Backround; Setting; The Village & their People; Phases of Life; Structure of the Society; The Dimasa Economy; On Polity; Light Aspects of Life; The Other World; Changing Dimasa Life; Postscript; Appendices: Copies of Court Cases; Lists of Sengfong (Patriclan) & Jaddi ( Matriclan); Dimasa Songs; Rituals & Worship of Dimasa Gods; Case Studies of a Few Worships.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Northeast India, Assam, Ethnography, Sociology, Dimasa people, Kachari tribes, Tribal society, Social Anthropology