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Conversation with Raji speakers

Description: Conversation to cross check the elicited data related to body parts, kinship terms, color terms and natural objects with an aim to find the dialectal variation. Recorded in Askote.
Date: 2001
Duration: 47 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Raji men in the Askote market

Description: Photograph of Raji men taking a rest in front of their favorite tea shop at Askote. Every day, they bring wood or grass collected from the jungles to sell. They get a very small amount of money in return.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Inside a traditional house in a Raji village

Description: Photograph of a Raji family house. On the ground floor of this house, the family keeps their livestock at night to protect them from other animals and harsh weather. The gate of the ground floor is at the back of the house. The family lives on the top floor.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Raji women carrying wood to local markets

Description: Photograph of Raji women carrying wood. Every day many Raji women carry wood they collect from jungles on their heads and come to the local market to sell it. Sometimes, they directly go to Kumauni families who are their regular customers.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Raji women wearing traditional jewelry

Description: Photograph of Kavita Rastogi with two Raji women. After a lot of cajoling, Kaushalya (middle) and her friend agreed to give Rastogi some time for an interview. Kaushalya is wearing a traditional choker that she made. She is from Nepal and learned how to make jewelry from her mother.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information
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