TY  - BOOK
AU  - Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von 
AU  - Furer-Haimendorf, Elizabeth von
TI  - The gonds of Andhra Pradesh: tradition and change in an Indian tribe
SN  - 9781032156590
U1  - 301.29 FUR/G 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - United Kingdom -- 
PB  - Routledge -- 
KW  - Gond (Indic people)
KW  - Andhra Pradesh
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - India
N1  - Preface. 

1. The Gonds in History and Literature 

2. The Material and Cultural Environment 

3. The Settlement Pattern 

4. The Village as a Social Unit 

5. The Neighbourhood 

6. Phratries – The Main Pillars of the Social Structure 

7. The Clan System 

8. The Feudal System – Past and Present 

9. Pardhans – The Bards of the Gonds 

10. Tribal Justice and Social Values 

11. The Mythological Foundations of the Social Order 

12. The Early Phases of Life 

13. Avenues to Marriage 

14. Marriage, Divorce and Inheritance 

15. The Kinship System 

16. Death and the Cult of the Dead 

17. Farming – The Basis of Gond Economy 

18. Religious Beliefs and Practices 

19. The Cult of the Clan Deities 

20. The Changing Fortunes of the Adilabad Gonds. 

Glossary. 

Bibliography. 

Index

N2  - The author's long-standing familiarity with many individual Gonds has allowed him to draw in this book, originally published in 1979, an intimate picture of the life of a specific village community and to trace the fates of individual men and women over a long stretch of time
ER  -