People Of India: Punjab (People Of India National Series)

The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project (POI) on 2 OCtober 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of India, the impact on them of change and development process and the links that bring them together. As part of this study, this ethnographic survey of all communities of present day Punjab (95) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of this survey were discussed at the workshops held at Dehradun in November 1985 and October 1987 and at Patiala in August 1989, and published here.