The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography

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Verrier Elwin was an English missionary in India who was converted to Indian ways of thinking through contact with Mahatma Gandhi, the national movement, and tribal India. He studied and lived with several of the country's little-known tribes and became close to Gandhi as well as Nehru. This moving and well-written autobiography describes Elwin's remarkable experience in India and provides a fascinating look at this important pioneering anthropologist...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195623142

ISBN13:9780195623147

Release Date:May 1990

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:374 Pages

Weight:0.93 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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