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About The Book: This collection contains an assortment of lifepatterns of the multiethnic tribal and nontribal communities of North East India. The work reflects the lifeways of the people since around the onset of the closing three decades of the last century. That was the period of heavy impact of Western as well as panIndian sociocultural norms of the people of the region. The work highlights the people's way of absorption and assimilation of the neoWestoriented as well as penIndian sociocultural elements in their emergent lifepatterns.As the North Eastern People's traditional lifeways are fast disappearing under the impact of multiple forces and factors. The work in this collection should serve the purpose of benchmarketing the trend and quantum of change in the foreseeable future. About The Author: Dr. Khagen Chandra Mahanta, M Sc (Sau.), PhD (Gau.) was a faculty member of the Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh786004, Assam, India for 32 years. Over the years he had been teaching Social and Cultural Anthropology to the postGraduate Classes of the University. As the seniormost Professor of the Department, besides teaching, he was actively engaged in providing guidance and supervision to researchers for PhD degree of the University. As a faculty member and research guide and supervision, he covered a wide range of ethnographic study among some thirty five tribal and nontribal communities of the whole of NorthEast India. He also contributed papers on Scheduled Tribes of Assam for Publishing in the Encyclopaedia Profile of Indian Tribes by the National Institute of Rural Development Hyderabad, over and above contributing papers on the Scheduled Casters of Assam for publishing by the Assam Institute of Research for Tribals and Scheduled Castes, Guwahati. His publications totaling 42 papers mostly deal with the current burning sociocultural p[roblems of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes of NorthEast India. Some of his works are concerned with t