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The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography
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 I
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374 pages
Published
May 17th 1990
by Oxford University Press, USA
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He took keen interest in the Indian culture while he was a student at Oxford. He came to India in 1927 and started living with the tribals in order to understand their life style and culture. He wrote numerous monographs and books on the Indian tribes.
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