Peoples of North East India : Anthropological
Perspectives/edited by Sarthak Sengupta. New Delhi, Gyan Pub., 2008, xx, 256
p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-212-0519-0.
Peoples of North East India : Anthropological
Perspectives/edited by Sarthak Sengupta. New Delhi, Gyan Pub., 2008, xx, 256
p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-212-0519-0.
Contents: Preface. Acknowledgement. List of contributors. 1. Ethnic elements in North East India/B.M. Das. 2. Intergroup variability of the Tai People of Assam/T. Shyamacharan Singh. 3. A study on growth among the Assamese and Rajasthani boys/A.K. Das. 4. The Garias of Assam: a biodemographic study/P.M. Buzarbarua and S.H.M. Rizvi. 5. Selection intensity among the Sonowals of Assam/Sarthak Sengupta and Mondira Kalita. 6. Body Build and Menarcheal Age in Rural Assamese Women/Bandana Das. 7. Biomedical anthropological approaches in North Eastern India: A synthesis of the tea garden population of Assam/R.S. Balgir. 8. Numerical taxonomy and group divergence of the Khasi Population Groups/Pratap C. Dutta, Dipesh Choudhury and Dipak Kumar Adak. 9. Biological distances among the three Mulim populations of Manipur/M.L. Shah. 10. Menarche and its trend in North East India/Sarthak Sengupta. 11. Development of traditional democratic institution in Arunachal Pradesh/P.C. Dutta. 12. Enforced change resulting a break in highland trade: a study on the Tawang Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh/Bibhash Dhar. 13. Vaishnavism among the noctes an ethnographic study/K.C. Mahanta. 14. Religious trends and identity crisis: a cross cultural study among three plain tribes of Assam/Chandra Jyoti Sonowal. 15. The Assamese Sikhs: Samurais of Assam/Birinchi Kumar Medhi. 16. Traditional political system: a case study of the Karbis of Assam/R.P. Athparia. 17. The Taraco: a dwindling tribe of Manipur/Mutum Bokul Singh. 18. The Chothes of Manipur : an appraisal of socio-political traditional and development/R.K. Kar. Index.
"The seven sister states of north east region of India is the homeland of large number of castes, tribes and communities who lives in valleys, inaccessible and difficult hills, forests and other terrains; speaks various language; have different socio-cultural heritages and show variation in physical features. It is indeed deplorable that till date we have very scanty information about the people of North East India. A modest effort has therefore been made through the present treatise to give a first hand systematic anthropological informations on these little known peoples of the region who are living in relative isolation.
The canvas of the present compilation on Peoples of North East India is indeed multi-disciplinary and trans-sectoral in nature and combines indepth studies and analysis of distinguished and dedicated team of anthropologists of India.
The volume contain eighteen well researched articles and their thematic analysis which cover an astonishing array of subjects and throw light on some of the important facets of anthropology like ethnic elements, inter-group variability, human growth, bio-social aspects, colorful cultural life, tribal institutions, process of Sanskritization, forms of political system, identity dynamics etc., among a small segments of vast and varied types of people of North East India with special emphasis on tribal inhabitants, Muslim immigrants and immigrants of tea gardens.
The book being comprehensive and painstaking research based work, would be one of the basic reference books and will be of extremely stimulus and useful to anthropologists, demographers, various social, biological and medical scientists as well as administrators, planners, policy makers and indeed anyone with a concern about the People of North East India." (jacket)