Contents: Preface. 1. Constitutional safeguards and national policy for tribes/Lokesh Shrivastava. 2. Empowerment of tribes through Panchayati Raj a realistic view/Ranjana Mishra. 3. Empowerment of the tribal families: history and contemporary India/Tarunvir Saini. 4. Constituent of beverages as prevalent in tribal community/Mudita Shrivastava. 5. Some aspects of health seeking behaviour in Kols: a tribe of Madhya Pradesh/Nandita Soni. 6. Sustainable development of tribes/Noopur Bajpai. 7. Agricultural development in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh/N.G. Pendse and Renu Parihar. 8. The study of the effect of anxiety, educational achievement and other environmental variables on learning capacity of tribal school students/Smita Jain.  9. The tribal settlement at Kakrehta/S.N. Mishra. 10. Distribution of tribes in Orissa a geo-spatial analysis/Rekha Devi. 11. Forest and tribal- an unbreakable linkage/A.K. Pandey and Rashmi Dubey. 12. Tribal scenario in India: constraints and policy issues/A.K. Gill and Prashant Karmveer. 13. Strategies for tribal development in India: past experience and task ahead/Vipin Chand Rai. 14. Tribes in India: a social aspect/Santosh K. Yadav. 15. Tribal population of Dindori District of Madhya Pradesh (A case study)/Lokesh Shrivastava and Ritu Rani.

"This book shows the different views of the different researchers. Tribes of India have a heritage with them. As, India is a large country, having various types of physical features and environment. Similarly, people of Indian are living in different conditions and costumes. Tribal community is also one of these and different with all. Every person is having his own view to see and interpret the environment of tribes. In this book we are trying to show a scenario of Indian tribes. Some of the very important features facts and problems are shown in this book." (jacket)