Table of Contents

Introduction; Reconstructing Identity, Preserving Dignity: The Struggle of the Nomadic Pastoralists; Between Two Worlds: The Trader Pastoralists of Kinnaur; In the Name of Pastoralism: The Early Medieval Maharashtra; Mobility & Craft Production; In the Absence of Mounds: Shifting Villages, Pastoralism, & Depopulation; The Bhils in the Historic Setting of Western India; Reinterpreting Tribal Survival: The Baiga of the Central Provinces, 1730-1900; From Pastoralism to Agriculture: Tondai Nadu, a Tamil Sub-Region in the Early Historical & Early Medieval Periods; Concluding Summary; Index.

About the Author

Rudolf C. Heredia has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago and is the founder of the Social Science Centre, St. Xaviers College, Mumbai.