describe in brief the appeal that was made by Dr.Verrier Elwin to people of assam in the lesson my impression of Assam 5marks
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Verrier Elwin Says that the people of Assam are friendly and they show courtesy and hospitality towards foreigners. He has not found this in other countries. He says that it is unhappily a rare thing in the modern world of competition and rivalry.
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Verrier Elwin (29 August 1902 – 22 February 1964)[1] was a British-born Indian anthropologist, ethnologist and tribal activist, who began his career in India as a Christian missionary. He first abandoned the clergy, to work with Mohandas Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, then converted to Hinduism in 1935 after staying in a Gandhian ashram,[2] and split with the nationalists over what he felt was an overhasty process of transformation and assimilation for the tribals. Verrier Elwin is best known for his early work with the Baigas and Gonds of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh in central India, and he married a 13 year old member of one of the communities he studied. He later also worked on the tribals of several North East Indian states especially North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) and settled in Shillong, the hill capital of Meghalaya.[3]