Agnihotra: Studies in Indic Traditions (Prof. Prabhu Dayalu Agnihotri Felicitation Vol.)

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The first six volumes on the ethnic history of Bastar, which were subtitled Social History of Chhattisgarh (1985), Lanka ki Khoj (1977), Prachina Baster (1978), Adivasi Samantavad (1987), Tribal History (1988), and Bhumkal (1991) give a comrehensive survey of the life journey of the primitive people in the Chakrakota Mandala which is now called Baster in Middle India. These volumes probe into the social, economic and political life of the people who are now called Adivasis, right from the Middle stone Age (25000 B.C.) to the 1777 A.D. The present volume is an extension of the previous volume. It describes the further changes which took place within the womb of the tribal communities of Bastar. it covers a period ranging from 1777 to 1947 of about two centuries.