Verrier Elwin Was An English Intellectual Who Came To India As Missionary But Was Himself Converted To Indian Ways Of Thinking By His Contact With Mahatma Gandh

"Described by his contemporaries as a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Paul Gauguin, Elwin was a man of contradictions, at times taking on the role of evange

From presenting, in Elwin's own words, the account of his going to work among the tribal peoples of central India, to affording glimpses of his seminal work on

Between Ethnography and Fiction brings together essays by sixteen scholars of various disciplines to re-examine the work of Verrier Elwin in the fields of triba