Indigenous knowledge system is a great treasure of indigenous peoples, which they have been preserving and conserving from time immemorial in their natural habitats for managing their cultural traditions and social heritage. This knowledge they utilize for preservation and conservation for the biodiversities and also in livelihoods development. These have been studied in a full-fledged research work in the habitats of three particularly vulnerable tribal groups- Baiga, Bhariya and Sahariya- in Madhya Pradesh, discussing the whole in six chapters with the empirical data and concluding at the end with the formation of the flow of community mobilization or participation in livelihood strategies to the community empowerment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Debashis Debnath
Dr. Debashis Debnath is presently working as Faculty Member in the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, an autonomous institute under the ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. He is a first class honours graduate and post-graduate in Anthropology. He was awarded Ph.D. from Calcutta University in the year 1992. He has also been awarded the MOUAT medal from Calcutta University for his successful completion of Premchand for his successful completion of Premchand Roychand Scholarship in Calcutta University in the year 2000. He has good professional and academic experiences conducting many a number of Educational courses at the institute and national level training programmes in the field of natural resource management and completing many consultancy projects. He has attended many national and international conferences or workshops and published so far good number of research articles, research papers, book reviews and popular articles in national level academic journals and magazines. His areas of interest are Tribal Culture and Development, Participatory Development, Bio-diversity conservation and sustainable development, Community institutions and innovations etc.
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