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Staying On To Good Purpose

David Gilmour SAVAGING THE CIVILIZED: VERRIER ELWIN, HIS TRIBALS AND INDIA by Ramachandra Guha University of Chicago Press, £22.50, pp. 336 N o one resembling Verrier Elwin......

Beating Any Old Drum

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