The Agaria ... With a foreword by Sarat Chandra Roy
Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Vanya Prakashyan, Oxford University Press, 1991. First published in 1942, this is the 1991 reprint; 8vo, pp. xxxvii, [1], 292; 5 maps (1 folding), 36 plates showing 50 illustrations, aqnd 44 figures in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A study of the Agaria tribe of iron-smelters and blacksmiths found in Central India. "The Agaria are a class of people who are absorbed in their craft and their material, with little life apart from the roar of the bellows and the clang of the hammers upon the iron they smelt" (wisdom[.]org). Item #70033
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