Verrier Elwin

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[edit] Verrier Elwin

born 1902 died 1964

Educated in Oxford University. Came to India in 1927 as a missionary. He first joined Christian Service Society in Pune. The first time he visited the central India, current states of Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, and parts of eastern Maharashtrawas with another Indian from Pune Shamrao Hivale. Their studies are on the tribes are the first anthropological studies in the country. Over the years he was influenced by the philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. The Church however soon found objections to the ways of Elwin's when he began working and living with them. He married a women from the Gond community. He came out with numerous works on various tribal groups in India, the best acclaimed being those on Maria and Baigas.

After India attained independence in 1947 he was asked by the Jawaharlal Nehru to find solutions to the problems that emerged in the North Eastern States of India, then called NEFA currently the region has 7 states adjunct to the state of Assam.

One of the recent the biography of Verrier Elwin is by Ramchandra Guha [1] Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India an Oxford University Publication [2]

[edit] External Links

• Beating a dead horse Verrier Elwin
• Friend of the Forestby an Indian Poet Dom Mores
• Verrier Elwin's Field Methods and Fieldwork in India An Appraisal Bhabagarhi Misra

[edit] references

• Verrier Elwin, The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin, An Autobiography (New York, 1964)
• Verrier Elwin, The Baiga (London, 1939)
• Verrier Elwin, The Agaria (Bombay, 1942)
• Verrier Elwin, Maria Murdel- and Suicide, (Bombay, 1950)
• Verrier Elwin, The Muria and their Ghotul (Bombay, 1947)
• Verrier Elwin, The Religion of an Indian Tribe (Bombay, 1955)
• Verrier Elwin, "Our Debt to India's Tribesman," JBRS, XXXIII, I and II (1947)
• Verrier Elwin, A Philosophy for NEFA, (Shillong, 1959)
• Verrier Elwin, Ten Years of Progress in N.E.F.A. (Shillong, 1957)
• Verrier Elwin, Studies in N.E.F.A. Folklore, 2 vols. (Shillong, 1955)
• Verrier Elwin, Democracy in N.E.F.A. (Shillong, 1965)
• Verrier Elwin, "The Anthropological Survey of India: Part I, History and Recent Development," Man, XLVIII (1948)
• Verrier Elwin, "I Married a Gond," Man in India, XX, no. 4 (1940)
• Verrier Elwin, Leaves from the Jungle: Life in a Gond Village, 2nd Ed. (London,1938)
• Verrier Elwin, Tribal Myths of Orissa (Bombay, 1954)
• Hivale and Elwin, Songs of the Forest
• Shamrao Hivale, Scholar Gypsy, A Study of Verrier Elwin (Bombay, 1946)

• Archana Prasad. Against Ecological Romanticism : Verrier Elwin and the Making of an Anti-Modern Tribal Identity/ New Delhi, Three Essays Collective