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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- DIAGRAMS -- PREFACE -- Part I. GARO SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- CHAP. I. Introduction -- CHAP. II. The Relation of Village Community to Kinship Structure -- CHAP. III. Social Change in Villages near the Plain -- PART II. KHASI SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- CHAP. I. Introduction -- CHAP. II. Village Community -- CHAP. III. Kinship Structure and its Implications in Various Forms of Marriage -- DISCUSSION OF MATRILINEAL SYSTEMS -- APPENDIX. Some Additional Information from Sheila and Jatinga -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

The study aims to explore the roles of indigenous Garo women in transforming their families in Bangladesh. A quantitative approach was applied to conduct the study while the social survey method was used to collect data and information. The study reveals that the socio-economic status of Garo women is very poor as 35% of them completed the primary level of education and 40% passed the secondary level of education while 64% of Garo women are day laborers and 61% are loan receivers. Conventional role-female headship has been changing overwhelmingly as both husband and wife are playing vibrant roles in the family building where 80% of family decisions are being taken jointly. Though the traditional role of female headship is being changed, women have to perform 69% of household activities. Their participation in local social organizations is impressive (74%) but they are reluctant to involve in local politics.

Papers presented at the Seminar on the Status of Social Sciences in the Vernacular Languages of North East India in 1998, organised by ICSSR-NERC

AbstractThis article studies two seismic decades in the history of the Garo community, marked out in colonial records as among the most violent and isolated people that British rule encountered in eastern and northeastern India. Through a densely knit historical narrative that hinges on an enquiry into the colonial reordering of the core elements of the regional political economy of eastern and northeastern India, it will train its focus on the figure of the rebellious Garo peasant and on the arresting display of Garo recalcitrance between 1807 and 1820. Reading a rich colonial archive closely and against the grain, the article will depart from extant historiography in its characterization of the colonial state in the early nineteenth century as well as of its relationship with 'tribes'/'peasants' in eastern and northeastern India. A critique of the idea of primitive violence and the production of the 'tribe' under conditions of colonial modernity will occupy the latter half of the article. Here it will argue that the numerous and apparently disparate acts of headhunting, raids, plunder, and burning by the Garos on the lowlands of Bengal and Assam were in fact an assembling of the first of a series of sustained peasant rebellions in this part of colonial India—a powerful manifestation of a community's historical consciousness of the loss of its sovereign self under British rule.