The Kodaku of Surguja (An Old and Rare Book)

About the Book The Kodaku, one of the little known Mundari speaking Scheduled Tribes of Central India live in Pal, Samri, and Surajpur Tahasils of Surguja District of Madhya Pradesh. The book gives an ethnogra- phic account of the Kodaku based on the data gathered as part of the project, "Area Study: Chhattisgarh".

Due to the pressures of modernization and contact, tribal life and cultures are changing very fast. An attempt, therefore, has been made through this study to record facts of life of the people in as much detail as possible in order to keep track of trends of change that the life and culture of the Kodaku have been sub- jected to.

About the Author Bageshwar Singh (born 16th July, 1942) is an M.A. in Anthropology from Lucknow University. He joined Anthro- pological Survey of India in 1964 and is at present an Anthropologist attached with its North-Western Regional Office at Dehra Dun. He has worked among several tribal communities of Central India like Korku, Kodaku, Mina, and Kolam. For brief a period Shri Singh was attached with the Indian Space Research Organisation. He has a number of published research papers and book reviews to his credit.

A Ph.D. from the Cornell University (U.S.A.), Ajit K. Danda (born November 1936) worked for his doctoral dissertation under the gui- dance of Prof. Morris E. Opler. A researcher with diverse areas of interest, ranging from ethnicity and economic anth- ropology to research metho- dologies, rural reconstruction, and national integration, Dr Danda has carried out field investigations among tribals, peasants, industrial workers, slum dwellers, occupational groups and caste/communities in nine different States of India. Dr Ajit K. Danda is the Vice-President of the Indian Anthropological Society, Calcutta. He has pub- lished, in addition to his eight books, seventy-five research articles. He is also in the editorial board of three learned journals, namely, "Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society", "South Asian Anthropologist" and "Human Science". Currently, he is the Director of the Anthropologi cal Survey of India..

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