Tribes of North-East India: Issues and Challenges
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Culture and environment of North-East India in changing perspective/B.K. Medhi & S.K. Roy. 2. Tribes and Castes of North-East India-Socio-Political Changes in Pre and Post Independence period/Ganesh Ch. Sharma Thakur. 3. Contemporary Challenges faced by the Tribals of North-East India: Analysis in the context of implementing NRM-Based development interventions/Vincent Darlong. 4. Indigenous knowledge of Agricultural Management and changing trend among some tribal people of Manipur/R.P. Athparia. 5. Changing Village Economy of the Galo: A study on Zirdin village of West Siang District in Arunachal Pradesh/Mari Lollen. 6. Major Challenges faced by the Tribals of North-East India/Peter Haokip. 7. Indigenous Resource management among the Tribes of North-East India with special reference to usage of bamboo/Birinchi K. Medhi & K. Jose SVD. 8. Concept of property among the Garos of North-East India/Arifur Zaman. 9. Angami Women and Matrilineal Inheritance: A case study of Zounuo-Keyhonuo Group/Kedilezo Kikhi. 10. Impact of Indian administration on economic life of border Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh/Ashan Riddi. 11. Socio-Political situations of the Tribes of Assam since Ahom period/G.C. Kakati& B.K. Barman. 12. Health of Tea gardern workers: A case study in upper Assam/Bhaskar Das & Sarthak Sengupta. 13. The Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh: a frontier Tribe in transition/Tarun Mene & S.K. Chaudhuri. 14. Socio-Cultural change among the Rabhas/Upen Rabha Hakacham & Rupak K. Rabha. 15. Khasi Society and the Impact of modernity: Challenges to identity and integrity/Barnes Mawrie SDB. 16. Negotiating cultural transformation in Tribal North-East India/A.C. Sinha. 17. Types, distribution, and religious significance of the megaliths of the Karbis of Dimoria, Assam/Birinchi K. Medhi & Kalpana Choudhury. 18. Cultural contacts: Problems and opportunities/Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil SDB. 19. Problems of Cultural contact/Saroj Chaudhuri. 20. Folksongs as a Mouthpiece of Tea-Tribes during Colonial period – Assam in reference/Baijayanta Keot & Parag Nath. 21. A brief sketch on the Santals’ Custom and Heritage/Bharat Tudu. 22. Impact of Christianity on the Khasi-Jaintia:People of Meghalaya/O.L Snaitang. 23. Hinduisation of the Bodos/Luke Daimary. 24. Pith Art of Assam/Nabajit Deka. 25. Tribes of Tripura and National Integration/Nirmal Das. 26. Constraints of Development: A study on the Tiwas of Assam/G.C. Ojah. 27. Tribes and the Politics of National Integration in India’s North-East/Samir Kumar Das. 28. Murasingh:Socio-Cultural Crisis/Lakshmidhan Murasing. 29. Funeral rites of the Harbong Tribe of Tripura/Nanigopal Chakraborty. 30. Social and Cultural Dynamics of the Totos/Rajib Chatterjee. 31. Women and Patriarchy: Assam in context/Mandakini Baruah. 32. Gender and Family in the context of Matrilineal Societies/Dilip Kr. Kalita. 33. Impressions of Permanence: A Study of the Kherai Ritual of the Bodos/Madhurima Goswami. 34. The Tribe-Caste continuum and the Formation of the Assamese Identity/Chandan Kr. Sharma. 35. Tribal Identity, Customary Law and Modernisation in North-East India/Walter Fernandes.
