About the Book: Hindus and Tribals: Quest For Co-existence: Social Dynamics in
Medieval Orissa
The complex process of tribal absorption into the Hindu societyand the mobility
of jatis in the varna scale has been keenlystudied by scholars in the past under
various labels -Sanskritization, Brahmanization and so on; however, there
hasresulted a tediousness owing to use of the same old trends andmethods of
research. Hindu and Tribals is a trend-setter in thisregard as it studies the
workings of this process from freshperspectives using new methodologies - of
inter-disciplinaryapproach, for instance. Prof. G.N. Dash, a learned scholar in
thefield, studies the tribals absorption into the Hindu society andtheir