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Synopsis This book is a collection of photographs of the tribals of India, accompanied by descriptions of the author’s experiences among them. Beginning in the early forties, renowned photographer Sunil Janah travelled extensively, for thirty years, to remote and hitherto almost inaccessible tribal villages. For days he lived with these people and developed a closeness and friendship with them. This enabled him to capture with his camera these intimate images of their lives. This new edition contains over a hundred and forty black and white photographs representing almost all of the major tribal belts of India: In the east: the Santals, the Oraons, the Bhumias and the Hos of Jharkhand and the border regions of West Bengal and Bihar; the Gadabas, the Saoras and the Juangs of Orissa; the Chakmas of Tripura and the Hajangs of Bengal,In central India: the Murias, the hill Marias and the Bison-horn Marias of Bastar, In the west: the Bhils of Rajasthan and the Warlis of the Western Ghats, In the sout