Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India by Ramachandra Guha

Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India

Ramachandra Guha

416 pages • first pub 1999 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Verrier Elwin (1902-1964) was unquestionably the most colorful and influential non-official Englishman to live and work in twentieth-century India. A prolific writer, Elwin's ethnographic studies and popular works on India's tribal customs, art, m...

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