Mahias, Marie-Claude

Articles

• The Construction of the Nilgiris (South India) as a “Tribal Sanctuary” (1812-1950)
  24 juillet 2020, par Frederico Delgado-Rosa

  In modern anthropology, the case of the Nilgiris has been used to construct very different sociological models. It has been equally easy to prove that the inhabitants were isolated tribes or that they were part of a jajmânî-like system of interdependence, with either the Todas or the Badagas as the dominant caste. Although the weakness of the data from remote times has indeed something to do with this, these same data were still sufficient to lend themselves to divergent elaborations, which (...)