Contours of Continuity and Change: The Story of the Bonda Highlanders

An AltaMira Press Book This study presents a new approach and theoretical perspective for the study of social transformation in subsistence formations in India. It tells the story of the relatively unknown Bonda highlanders of southern Orissa -- a tribe caught in a vortex of change from subsistence production to semi-proletarianized wage earning and abandoned to burgeoning market forces and state-sponsored development.