The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin

The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin
First edition
Author	Verrier Elwin
Country	India
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print
ISBN	978-0-19-562314-7
OCLC	1576037
Dewey Decimal	923.654
LC Class	DS430 .E52 1964

The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin is the autobiography of Verrier Elwin first published by Oxford University Press. The book was published posthumously in May 1964, three months after the death of Elwin.^[1] Natwar Singh lists the book as one of his five favourite autobiographies and appreciates Elwin's perceptive writing.^[2] The autobiography also inspired Ramachandra Guha to switch fields from economics to sociology.^[3]

The book won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.^[4]

References

↑ Guha 2006, p. 166–7.
↑ Singh, Natwar (2003). Heart to Heart. Rupa Publications. ISBN 9788129100504.
↑ Guha, Ramachandra (2014). Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India. Penguin UK. ISBN 9788184757569.
↑ Mohan 2004, p. 85–6.

Bibliography

Guha, Ramachandra (2006). An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English. Verrier Elwin. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra: Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-81-7824-151-7. OCLC 903368027.
Mohan, Ramesh; Narayan, Shyamala (2004). "Awards (India)". In Eugene Benson. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-48432-6. OCLC 874157271.

Sahitya Akademi Award for English

1960–1975	The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969) Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1975)

1976–2000	Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976) Azadi by Chaman Nahal (1977) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979) On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980) Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi (1982) Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984) Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal (1986) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990) The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991) Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992) After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993) Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998) The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)

2001–2015	Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri (2002) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee (2003) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004) The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy (2005) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (2006) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007) Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009) The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010) India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil (2012) Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao (2013) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015)

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