Folk Culture of the Misings of Assam

Folk Culture of the Misings of Assam
Author: Ashok Sarma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

The Book Is An In-Depth Study Of The Socio-Cultural Life Of The Mising Tribe Of Assam. It Studies The Factors Influencing Their Material Culture, Traditional Life Pattern, Art And Craft Activity Et Al. And Tries To Analyze The Impact Of Modernisation, Acculturation And Urbanization Faced By Them.

Practising Cultural Geographies

Practising Cultural Geographies
Author: Ravi S. Singh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811664153

This festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.

Mising Folk Tales

Mising Folk Tales
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013
Genre: Miri (Indic people)
ISBN: 9788126044399

A collection of the English translations of folk tales of Mising people in Assam with introduction by editor about Mising people's history.

Cultural Contours of North-East India

Cultural Contours of North-East India
Author: Birendranath Datta
Publisher: OUP India
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780198075578

This book explores aspects of culture and folklore of different states and tribes of north-east India. It examines arts and crafts, regional painting traditions, puppetry, literature, performing arts, cultural relations between different states, and religious cults and movements of the region.

Missing tribes in Assam

Missing tribes in Assam
Author: Hemanta Saikia
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2014-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3656868808

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The Mising is a major ethnic group of north east India and second largest tribe in Assam. As per 2001 census the Mising constitutes 17.8 percent of the tribal population of Assam and the total numbers of Mising population is 587,310. They are found mostly in Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Dibrugarh Dhemaji and Golaghat Districts of Assam. The Mising, being riverside people, have special liking to live on the riverbanks in spite of the fact that they have to face the flood of the river during the monsoon. Sometime flood force them to shift their villages. The Mising are still very backward and their socio-economic conditions have not developed. This essay attempts to explore the socio-economic condition of Mising people of Assam. Despite of the development of the socio economic structure of the Missing tribes, there is a gap still remains the socio economic development. Even though constitution provided a strong framework for the development of the Mising tribes they are still remain backward and so still strong foundation for the development of them is needed.

Religion in Early Assam

Religion in Early Assam
Author: Rena Laisram
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527533468

This volume offers a fresh approach to the existing literature on religion in Early Assam, bringing together perspectives from the fields of archaeology, religion, history and heritage. For decades, the Naraka legend has been incorporated into history without due critical attention and analysis of the historical context, while archaeological studies in religion have been largely descriptive. The sacred landscape of the erstwhile Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms had linkages with the history of other parts of India, and beyond. This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of religion in Early Assam based on an exhaustive use of archaeological sources. It opens with a useful overview of the conceptual and methodological foundations of religion, archaeology and history. Heritage conservation of sacred sites such as Kāmākhyā which face the impact of rapid urbanization illustrates implications for Assam’s history and identity.

Green Gold

Green Gold
Author: Alan Macfarlane
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1448116201

Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aesthetics. It raised nations and shattered empires. Economies were changed out of all recognition. Diseases were thwarted by the magical drink and cities founded on it. The industrial revolution was fuelled by tea, sealing the fate of the modern world. Green Gold is a remarkable detective story of how an East Himalayan camellia bush became the world's favourite drink. Discover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the men and women whose lives were transformed out of all recognition through contact with the deceptively innocuous green leaf.