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The rainbow land of seven sister states of north eastern region of India is the homeland of large number of tribes, who lives in diverse habitat; speaks a variety of languages; have different sociocultural heritage; and show distinction in physical features. There exists an information gap on the tribes of north eastern India, and whatever information exists on them is scanty or needs to be updated., , This concise compilation contains a collection of fifteen thoughtprovoking scholarly contributions by eminent anthropologists and other social scientists and offer discrete metaphors of the economy, polity, social organization, demographic features, timehonoured institutions, bioanthropological perspectives and several other aspects of the tribes of north eastern India, including Sikkim., , The articles included in the treatise seek to break new ground in showing the colourful lifestyle of the tribal people of the region. The book will be of extremely stimulus and useful to anthropologists besides other social scientists; planners, policy makers and indeed anyone with a concern about the tribal people of north eastern India. About The Author: Sarthak Sengupta (b.1955) received his M.Sc. (1977) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in Anthropology from Dibrugarh University and Gauhati University respectively. He also worked with the Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India and North Eastern Hill University, Shillong for quite some time and conducted intensive field studies among diverse i tribes and castes in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Uttar Pradesh. I He has had to his own credit ten wellknitted books on North East Indian tribes, and more than 200 original research papers published in various reputed national and international professional journals besides several chapters in edited volumes. He is an active life and 4 executive member of several professional anthropological bodies and members of the editorial ! boards of Journal of Human Ecology