Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Levinson David - Hays Terence E.
Title : Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 3 - South Asia
Year : 1992

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The diversity of South Asia, which covers a major sector of tropical and subtropical Asia, is quite apparent as one reads through the dozens of descriptive accounts published here, most written by an acknowledged expert on the community, caste, tribe, or sect in question. Some groups are tiny, others number in the millions; some are maritime, others live high in the mountain ranges; most have long flourished in the mainstream of major Indian civilizations, although a few are so remote that they have been effectively cut off from any civilizational influence until the present century, by mountains or deserts if not by preference. ...