Urbanisation and The Tribals of Tripura

Malabika Das Gupta did her B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta, M.A. (Economics) from Jadavpur University and Ph.D. (Economics) from Dalhousie University (Canada) where she was an J.W. Killam Scholar. She has taught in Miranda House and Tripura University. At present, she is associated with the Centre for Urban Economic Studies of the Department of Economics of the University of Calcutta in an honourary capacity. She has been an Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla and a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Malabika Das Gupta has undertaken several research projects funded by the ICSSR, Department of forest and Environment and Land Reforms of the Governments of India and Tripura. She has authored several books and her articles have appeared in several national and international journals of repute. Most of her research papers deal with the issues related to tribals of north-east in general and Tripura in particular.