00000nam a22000008i 4500 20260913094747.0 260919s2018 ii 00 0 eng d 9789388162210 GN635.I4M36 2018 305.8009541 23 Bindeshwar Prasad Mandal Tribal Demography and Development in North-east India / Bindeshwar Prasad Mandal. New Delhi 2018. 240 pages Of the total tribal population in India, only 12 percent live in the eight North-Eastern states, but unlike central Indian states where they are in a minority in all the states, tribes constitute more than 80 percent of the state’s population in Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Nagaland, and hence receive better political attention. For the past several decades however, some states in the North-East have received a continuous flow of economic migrants from neighbouring states and Bangladesh, with the result that demographic balance has been tilting against indigenous population. Bodos, a plains tribe of Assam, have become a minority in many districts of Bodo Autonomous Council and lost land to immigrant Muslims, leading often to large-scale violence. An off-shoot of the population division is the unequal power relations between the tribals and the non-tribal’s who seem to dominate in political and economic power. Even within the tribes, there is a great deal of diversity. North-East India has over 220 ethnic groups, they all have their own culture and tribal tradition and speak their own tribal languages. This culturally diversity of North-East India also leads to inter-tribal conflict in many states, affecting peace and development. Not only tribal regions, but the entire North-East Region with the exception of Sikkim is characterized by low per-capita income, lack of private investment, low capital formation, inadequate infrastructure facilities, and geographical bottlenecks. The present book is an effort to understand the scenario of tribal development in North-East India. This book is design for graduate courses in social studies and social work. India, Northeastern—Scheduled tribes. India, Northeastern—Scheduled tribes—Population. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development bisacsh