Sacred Groves Among Communities

Sacred Groves Among CommunitiesSacred groves refer to patches of forests dedicated to deities often fiery ones. In their pristine form nobody is allowed to enter into them and lift anything from these areas including leaf litter. Women are not permitted to enter these groves quite often. Sacred groves conceived this way seem to be repositories of gene prots and biodiversity and are thus considered to be part of ethnoenvironment management. The study in this book, however, dispels

They have to be studied ith meticulous resort to tenets of sociological and anthropological research and given social and economic support to overcome their handicaps due to their long isolating from mainstream social life and modern economic activities

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forms part of social justice

The place where the Golden Temple now exists was a renowned place for Sadhus in ancient days

Mizoram Past and Present published by Mittal Publications has been widely acclaimed throughout the world and in the North-Eastern region of India in Particular

nothing much can be done to improve the conditions of the slums

It has unveiled the past

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A combination of both is attempted in this book

It seeks to offer a total realistic perspective of varied issues relating to high education

Degree in Comparative Philology and Linguistics by the Calcutta University in 1981

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