Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: Creator’s Description: This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous "tribal" people, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. It describes the deep divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of an historic confrontation over land. In the widest sense it is concerned with the reaction of one community to domination by another. To preserve their ancestral lands under a traditional tenure system indigenous people stress their common identity and cultural apartness from the rest of Nepalese society. This book therefore explores the link between culture and politics in a community subordinated by a more powerful group and threatened with what it regards as economic disaster and cultural annihilation.

Other Editions: Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations (Second edition, with Postscript)

Published reviews: D. P. Rajaure and D. R. Dahal, Review of Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations, by Lionel Caplan, Contributions to Nepalese Studies 1, no. 1 (1973): 111-12, http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/contributions/CNAS_01_01_reviews.pdf.
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J. T. Hitchcock in American Anthropologist 74, 1972
F. J. Moore in Journal of Asian Studies Nov. 1970
L. E. Rose in Annals of the Amer Pol & Soc Science 17, 1970
G. R. Gupta in American Sociological Review July, 1973
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