An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal
by
B. G. Karlsson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea...