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THE BOOK WAS DRENCHED <f)> 00 ^ OU 164278 OUP4S 30-1-71 5,000 OSMAN1A UNIVERSITY LIBRARY No. Accession <? .fc^ Call No. -2, \ X . J O<-* S< Auth r c - . or before dateMast This book should be returned on ^e Tribal Demography in India C. B. Mamoria, M. A. lecturer Mabarana ', Bbupal College , Udaipur (Raj) With a Foreword by Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, M.A., Ph. D., Director, Indian Institute jor Population Studies, Madras. KITAB MAHAL ALLAHABAD * DELHI BOMBAY By the same Author : i. Agricultural Problems of India (Second Edition, 1957) Y. ^t%^ iTta % fe^RT %. Population and Family Planning in India (In Press) 7. Indians Outside India 8. Social Disorganisation in 9. Socio-Economic India PUBLISHED BT KITAB MAHAL, j6-A ^ERO ROAD, ALLAHABAD AND PRINTED BT ANUPAM PRESS, I ?, ZERO ROAD, ALLAHABAD To My Revered Gurus Shri R. P. Gupta, M. A., (With whom I read during 1935-39) and Dr. R. N. Bagchi, M. A., Ph. D., (London} (With whom I conducted Research during 1952-56) With profound respect and devotion This Monograph is humbly dedicated as a token of gratitude and memory of those happy days. , B. MAMORIA. FOREWORD For some strange reason, all the studies on Indian demo- graphy, have hitherto ignored the question of India's abori- ginal population. In fact, many do not know that we have in our country more than fifty million aboriginals, the des- cendants of some of the original settlers and earliest inhabi- tants of India. India is a melting pot in more than one sense. For cen- turies different races and tribes, castes and communities have met and mingled together and this gradual but incomplete process of welding has left different groups at different levels of cultural evolution.
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