This ethnographic study throws light on the Raut of Chhattisgarh which is the first comprehensive study on this major caste group. Rauts are widely known as Yadavas who have been playing very significant role in recent times in the national as well as state political scenario of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and some other states of India, Rich cultural heritage and the functional role of the Raut in the local peasantry have provided them an important place in the regional caste milieu of Chhattisgarh.
Dr. Soni is the author of the book Bbil Sub-Groups in Caste Milieu published in 1993. He has published 85 research papers in various anthropological journals and in many edited volumes.
This book is the revised version of an earlier report submitted by Dr. Lok Nath Soni to the Anthropological Survey of India as a Junior Fellow in 1975. Dr. Soni has worked in the area of Chhattisgarh to which he originally belongs. Chhattisgarh has been a very rich area for anthropological studies. Dr. S. C. Dube's full-length account on the Kamar tribe is a well-known ethnographic work anthropology of this area. Dr. Verrier Elwin contributed valuable writings on the tribes of this region. There are a good number of research publications by the Survey namely, The Dhurwa of Bastar; The Dorla of Bastar; Chhattisgarh: An area study; Tribal Situation in North- East Surguja: Maria Lak-Katha (in Hindi); The Nagesia of Chhattisgarh; The Kodaku of Surguja; Dorla Lok-Katha (in Hindi); A Tribal Village of Middle India and so on.
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