Sanjeet Kumar

Ambika Prasad Research Foundation

Sanjeet Kumar is the founder and CEO of Ambika Prasad Research Foundation (APRF), Odisha, India. He has worked with many Indian organizations and institutes and the Forest, Environment, and Climate Change Department, Odisha, India. His research focuses on tribal communities, indigenous traditional knowledge, traditional therapeutic systems, traditional foods, plant taxonomy, medicinal plants, biodiversity conservation, restoration of floral wealth, management plans for protected areas, threatened taxa, phytochemistry, and antimicrobial activities of ethnobotanical plants. He has written 20 books, several book chapters, and around 150 research papers. He has supervised fifty MSc students and is currently guiding five Ph.D. scholars. He has organized several national and international seminars and awareness programs on medicinal plants and tribal cultures.

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Indigenous People - Traditional Practices and Modern Development provides a comprehensive overview of indigenous people, their traditional knowledge, and contemporary advancement in a variety of areas. It also discusses the need to preserve indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge in the present context and how to document and restore it. Additionally, it offers baseline data for developing plans for sustainable development and good governance. This book is a useful resource for academics, researchers, students, government agencies, non-governmental groups, and policymakers.components of the Earth. Only indigenous and native pillars can save us globally. Therefore, at any cost, the world must start a new era with indigenous people and their traditional knowledge. This book is a microscopic aspect of an anthropological study of the evolution, culture, rituals, traditional practices, and modern development of indigenous populations, globally speaking. It also enlightens the readers about the varied means of their livelihood and their social organization, religion, art, and music through three broad sections. The book will be quite useful for students, researchers, intellectuals, and general readers throughout the world. I wish for a grand success that will be a source of inspiration in many ways and a life-changing fount in the contemporary world.

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