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Title: The Ghasi (A Scheduled Caste Community of Orissa)
Description: Bhubaneswar, Tribal/Harijan Research Inst, (1994). orig. wrappers. (4),68 pages. 21x14cm,. Folding map, folding chart. Rear cover stained, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Ethnographic study of a "denotified/ ex-criminal/ vulnerable community" of Orissa. Contents: Introduction; Demographic Composition; Habitat & Settlement; Economic Life; Social Organisation; Life-Cycle Rituals; Caste Council; Religious Life; Strategy for Development. Printer's colophon at bottom of last page reads: "OGP - MP - PTS (TW) 11 - 500 - 6.1-1994" [ie: published in an edition of 500 copies].

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Ghasi Caste, Scheduled Castes, Harijan, Ex-Criminal, Orissa Ethnology, India Ethnography, South Asia, Rural Sociology, Anthropology

Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS008273I