Verrier elwin biography of william

autobiography by Verrier Elwin

The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin is an autobiography of anthropologistVerrier Elwin published by Oxford University Press.

The book was published posthumously in May , three months after the death of Elwin. It was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in ^[2][3]

Publication

Jonathan Cape and Hutchinson were interested in publishing Elwin's autobiography and had sent letters to Elwin but he decided to approach Oxford University Press.

For book's title, Elwin requested his publisher R. E. Hawkins of Oxford University Press for suggestions and Hawkins put forward twenty-five different alternatives including Pilgrim's Way to NEFA,From Merton to Nongthymai, Khadi, Cassock, and Gown, Into the Forests, Over the Hills, Anthropologist at Large, Philanthropologist, No Tribal Myth, and My Passage to Tribal India.

But they finalized the title The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin, "to make