"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
"This study deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha 'or Kocha' people, their survival in the forest and their quest for identity. The Rabhas are one of India's indigenous or tribal people, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where t…
Rabhas are one of India's indigenous or tribal peoples. Today, large-scale deforestation and the global interest in wildlife conservation jeopardises the survival of the Rabha people. This book describes the development of the Rabha way of life.