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The Hoe and the Axe: An Ethnohistory of Shifting Cultivation in Eastern India (Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History)

The Hoe and the Axe: An Ethnohistory of Shifting Cultivation in Eastern India (Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History)
By Ajay Pratap

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This study is the first ever attempt in India to tackle the archaeology of shifting cultivation. As such it takes an ethno-historic path to expose the changes wrought upon the shifting cultivation system of the Paharias of Santal Paraganas and so to explain its presently observable dynamics.


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  • Published on: 2000-12-14
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 172 pages