Living in seclusion in the vastness of remote and often inaccessible forests and pastures and leading gypsy life, one sees in them terrible multiple faces of poverty. ignorance, disease and raw desperation. In this backdrop may be seen the State, Endeavour to induce them to take to sedentary form of life.
The Ban-Gujars who for centuries have lived a secluded tribal life in their zeal to maintain the purity of their traditions and customs are now set to mingle in the national mainstream. The Book Ban-Gujars, is a remarkable study of the religion-cultural and economic life of the only nomadic tribe in the State, thus appears at an opposite stage of transition from old to new era.
His earlier books on Gaddis of Dhauladhar, Pangwals of Pangi and Bodhs of Spiti,Pangi A Tribal Habitat in Mid-Himalaya, The Emergence of Himachal Pradesh and Spiti: A Buddhist Land in Western Himalaya have won scholarly appreciation.
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