Technology and Social Change Among the Ho Adivasis (Tribals) of West Singhbhum, Jharkand, India

Upasana Ray () and Asoka Kumar Sen ()
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Upasana Ray: Central University of Jharkhand
Asoka Kumar Sen: An Independent Researcher (Tribal History) based at Chaibasa

Chapter Chapter 12 in Technology and Innovation for Social Change, 2015, pp 189-198 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter is divided into three broad sections. The first section reconstructs the story of Ho rooted to a backward or no technology; the second explores the technological changes that conducted the transformation of material base of Ho life; and the last embodies the moral changes that shaped attitude and mentality in their life. Set in the pre-industrial backdrop, the present chapter attempts to historically reconstruct the story of transformation of Ho adivasis (tribals) from stone-age to iron-age technology that may help us in understanding to what extent this aided or impeded its graduation to industrial-age technology that later ruled over the world.

Keywords: Tribe; Technology; Ruralism; Peasantization; Colonial rule; Tank-irrigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2071-8_12

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