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Himalayan ecology, transhumance, and social organisation

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Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 1988 - Nature - 269 pages
With reference to Gaddis, Indic people, of Brahmaur Tehsil in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh.

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Contents

Distribution
86
House Style Composition of Households
119
Managing the Environment for Making a
139
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activities agriculture altitude animals barley Barton relationship behaviour Berreman Bharmani Bharmour Patwar Circle Bharmour Tehsil Bhattiyat Brahmans bride price brothers caste system Chamba District Chanai Chela Churah crops cultivable land culture Dhar Dharam Bhai ecological adaptations economic environment factors fields flocks fodder forests Gaddis Gharats Gothru Gotra grazing groups Gujjars habitat harvested high caste Himachal Pradesh household husband income irrigation isolation Kangra District kilometres Kugti Kwer labour land holdings low caste maize male manure marriage married metres migration mountain Nallah nuclear family Pahari Panchayat Pangi pastures pattern person plains plough population production Puhals Punjab Purohit Rajah Rajputs Ranas Ravi Rehara result ritual Sachuien Sachuien Revenue Village season settlement sheep and goats shepherds Sipi snow social organisation soil square kilometre summer Table terrain Thakur tion Total Revenue traditional Trakar transhumance utilise valley wheat winter Wizarat women wool zone

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TitleHimalayan ecology, transhumance, and social organisation
AuthorsVeena Bhasin, Unesco. Programme on Man and the Biosphere
PublisherKamla-Raj Enterprises, 1988
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized3 Oct 2008
ISBN8185264007, 9788185264004
Length269 pages
Subjects › 

Ecology
Gaddis (Indic people)
Human ecology
Nature / Ecology
Nomads
Social structure
Transhumance
  
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