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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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' Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268 References (continued) Reprint Corporation, 1969. (Original edition, Cal- outta: Thacker, Spink, 1915). Although its anthropo- metrically based views on Indian races are antiquated, its maps of caste distributions and discussion of how castes are regarded, often stereotypically, by Indians themselves are useful. i Schermerhom, R. A. Ethnic Plurality in India. Tuc- son, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1978. Focuses on 10 minorities: Scheduled Castes, Sched- uled Tribes, seven religious minorities, and Chinese, with emphases on identity fonnation and group mobil- ity. ’ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. “The Distribution of Selected Castes in the North Indian Plain,” The Geo- graphical Review. vol. 55, no.‘4, 1965, pp. 477-95 plus a large folded insert. Based on extensive field research, this work employs acombination of maps and graphs to indicate, at various scales, how castes are distributed over a large part of northern India. Schwartzberg, Joseph E., ed., A Historical Atlas of South Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; updated edition (lst edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.) Maps Indian perceptions of their own geography at various periods, beginning in Vedic times. For the modern period, maps show the distribution of religions, sects, languages, dialects, and castes based on various censuses from 1872 to 1961. Maps, graphs, and discusses ethnically related disturbances throughout the past century, but particu- larly in the postindependence period. Singer, Milton and Bernard S.jColm, Structure and Change in Indian Society. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1968. (Also published through Current Anthro- pology for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthro- pological Research, Inc., 1968, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 47.) Includes numerous studies on caste, language, and social struc- ture, among which several focus on intergroup dynamics and recent social change. K. S. Singh. The People of India: An Introduction. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, 1992. This is the largely methodological introductory volume to the Anthropological Sun/ey’s massive People of India Project, begun in 1985 and destined to provide “a brief, descriptive anthropological profile of all the (4,635!) communities of India, studying the impact on them of change and the development process and the linkages that bring them together.” K. S. Singh, ed., Tribal Movements in India (two vol- umes). New Delhi: Manohar, 1982. Presents papers given at a seminar organized by the Anthropological Survey of India at which 36 ongoing tribal movements were identified. Fourteen of these, all in the northeast, are treated in volume one and the remainder, from other regions, in volume two. Smith, Donald Eugene, ed., South Asian Politics and Religion. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. The four major sections of this excellent anthology are “South Asia: Unity and Diversity,” “India: The Politics of Religious Pluralism,” “Paki- stan: The Politics of Islamic Identity,” and “Ceylon: The Politics of Buddhist Resurgence.” Sopher, David E., ed., An Exploration of India. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1980. Includes, inter alia a critical overview of Indian regions by Bharat L. Bhatt, a valuable study of linguistic bound- aries by Charles J. Bennett, and a highly original over- view of the regional patterning of culture in India by the editor. Wallace, Paul, ed., Region and Nation in India. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. and American Institute of Indian Studies, 1985. Particularly useful are a wide-ranging bibliographical and historiographic essay on regionalism by N. Gerald Barrier and sub- stantive essays on regional cultures by Ainslie T. Embree and on linguistic states reorganization by Joseph E. Schwartzberg. 143 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.