Sons of the soil : migration and ethnic conflict in India /

Weiner, Myron,

Sons of the soil : migration and ethnic conflict in India / Myron Weiner. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1978. - 1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables. - Princeton Legacy Library .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Myron Weiner's study of the relationship between internal migration and ethnic conflict in India is exceptional for two reasons: it focuses on intercultural and interstate migration throughout the nation, rather than on merely local or provincial phenomena, and it examines both the social and the political consequences of India's interethnic migrations. Professor Weiner examines selected regions of India in which migrants dominate the modern sector of the economy. He describes the forces that lead individual Indian citizens to move from one linguistic-cultural region to another in search of.



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Migration, Internal--India.
Social mobility--India.
Ethnology--India.
Ethnology--India.
India--Population.
Migration, Internal--India.
Social mobility--India.


Electronic Books.

HB2099 / .S667 1978