The Sansis of Punjab

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The Sansis of Punjab -whose gift the famour Ranjit Singh was to Indian History are o­ne of the most important tribes of Noarth India, mistakenly branded as ‘aborigines’ by ill-informed anthropologist in the part and classed under “Criminal Tribes” by the British administrators during their regime.  This book gives an authentic and exhaustive account of this sadly neglected ethnic group. It contains original chapters o­n their dialect, demography, their relations with the gypsies, found out-side India and other Indo-Aryans peoples, and their socio-economic and cultural life including the present and future of their socio-economic and political life.