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A chinese Buddhist monk ( 1 - tring) in his travels of 672 AD described nicobarese tribals living entirely `naked,` At present the nicobarese, particularly, young ones are seen wearint ultra modern fashionable dresses and driving modern vehicles, playing modern musical instruments and winning prizes in modern games and sports. Some of them have become doctors, engineers, teachers administrora, radio programmers etc. How did they erach the present position of civilization from almost primitive nakedness? The author has found its answer in the impact of modern education on the life-ways and thought-ways of the tribals. He holds that modern formal education is a forceful instrument which has changed the values and attitudes of the tribal people and created in them the urge of necessary motivation to achieve social class ascendency and social mobility. It is responsible for cutting down the deep and thick roots of traditions, superstitions, ignorance backwardness, panrochialism etc., of the nicobarese tribals. Pages 325, figures, tables , size 14 22 cm. ISBN 81-7020-735-5.
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