About the Book: Bastar Dispatches
Abujhmad in the deep interiors of Bastar is inhabited by the Abujhmadias, a
primitive hunter-gatherer tribe whom Verrier Elwin has called the Hill Murias.
Abujhmad stands today as one of the few mirrors left the world over
whereinmodernity can view itself-its calamities and collapses. Abujhmad asks no
questions of itself nor provides answers; neither are there searches, quests
orcreation of utopias, ideas and ideologies, elaborate languages, agricultures,
technologies and endeavours. Based on the authors over thirty years of
association with Abujhmad (he is probably the first outsider to live there) and
its contiguous areas in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh, Bastar