'It is this deep first-hand knowledge with long experience that makes this relatively short survey of comparative character so revealing and valuable...a rewarding reading even to an advanced student of India's past and present...a perfect introduction to the realm of Anthropology of the whole Subcontinent.'
Archív Orientální, 1990.
'...of value to those seeking a basic primer in South Asian tribal ethnography.'
Walter Huber, Pacific Affairs, 1986.