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A Tribe in Transition: A Study in Culture Pattern by D N Majumdar.

The tribe in question is Ho's of lower plateau of Chotta Nagpur. Based on Majumdar's view, they are mostly hunters and gatherers but with the increasing expansion roads and railways, tribal economy shifting to simple agriculture and mostly, women taking to temporary work in the mines neaby.

In the critical period Indian and British Anthropologists met together on the occasion of Silver Jubilee of the Indian Science Congress at Lahore. D.N. Majumdar published a problem-oriented monograph on the tribe published under the title A Tribe in Transition: A Study in Culture Patterns, published by Longman's Green and Co. London in 1937. This constitutes the start of what Majumdar calls critical period in the growth of Indian anthropology.

Majumdar describes the change in Ho's way of life and culture. Also he points out the effects of culture contact with Europeans and the local people in the spheres of social organization and economics.

His functionalist approach is clearly visible as he was the student of Malinowski.

Critics claim his studies were superficial than deep with respect to the tribal studies in Ho inhabited region. He was criticized for watertight presentation of different aspects of culture and failure in demonstrating the interrelationship between various culture traits.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048403908541126?journalCode=rajp19