At long last, "at home" in India

As one works through one's life, all sorts of notes, observations, bric-a-brac and photographs tend to accumulate. Some have only a personal aignificance but a good number have archival imortance.

There are, for instance, the pictures and songs recorded in the "bachelors" dormitory among the Muria tribe in Bastar way back in 1970s. It is just not possible to get the original songs any more due to extensive change in the way of life of these tribes in recent years. Then there are the pictures of wildlife since 1972, when one could still walk about along the jungle paths and tracks. Many of these pictures in black and white are still appreciated by many.

Thanks to the personal interest of my good friend, Raza Kazmi, these notes, ranging from description of pale-geological sites going back about fifty million years to the Indus Valley sites that are just about five thousand years old, and the rock pintings starting from ten thousand years are now housed in the archives of the Ashoka Unversity. The link to this collection is at --https://archives.ashoka.edu.in/paper_details/96