Maharatna, Arup

Demographic perspectives on India's tribes/ Arup Maharatna - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005. - xx, 306 p. ; 23 cm.

Introduction : an overview of India's tribal demography --
Material levels of living and sociocultural moorings of Indian tribes : a comparative perspective --
Tribal fertility and mortality in late ninteenth- [sic] and early twentieth-century India --
Fertility, mortality, and gender bias among Indian tribes : the contemporary scenario --
Trends of tribal demography in Jharkhand in the post-Independence period --
On the 'brighter side' of tribal mobility : a case study of Santhals in rural west Bengal --
Conclusion.

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Mortality
Santal--Social conditions--South Asian people
Social conditions
Demographic transition
Human Fertility

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