Felix Padel
Felix Padel is a London-born anthropologist and activist, and a great, great grandson of Charles Darwin. A strong advocate of tribal and village-community rights, he has made his home in India for the past three decades.
Adivasi Economics and Re-awakening the Indigenous Mind
When the East India Company set up in India, the commodities they originally traded included hundreds of unique artifacts made in India, including textiles whose quality has never been surpassed. As the EIC set up a subsidiary called the Government of India for collecting revenue to send back to London, the aim gradually shifted to…
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