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THE PEOPLE
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INTRODUCTION
IN THIS CHAPTER IT IS PROPOSED TO DESCRIBE THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE of the people in the district as is reflected in the customs and traditions they follow, the language they speak, the religious observances they adopt, the games they play and the amusements with which they entertain themselves in short, the whole complex of their lives as members of a social organization. These social and cultural aspects cannot be treated apart from the economic ways of the society because economic stability is the very foundation of an enriched social life and still their separate treatment is necessary because it is ultimately the forms of social and cultural organization that determine the structure of society. In dealing with the various aspects of the social and cultural life of the people in the district more reliance is placed upon the factual present rather than the indefinable past. With the changing patterns of socio-economic organization it has now become necessary to deal with people as members of a community rather than those of an isolated group. The social life of the people could best be understood in perspective and it is in this light that the cultural life of the people is described in what follows.
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