The Story of Tourism

M.c. Bora, a retired Chief General Manager of Coal India Limited, is a Mining Engineer who has spent a greater part of his service career working in the coal-mining industry of the North-East. he has had occasion to visit several interior and remote areas of the region, unknown to many even in the region itself. Besides presentations in national and international symposia, he has several publications to his credit. His love for travel has taken him to several countries, including Russia, USA, England and France. A passionate photographer, Bora has captured several important features of tourist-related interest in the camera, which tend to make the book stand out for its liveliness. With a deep understanding of the region and its people, he provides a wealth of details relating to tourism in the North-East.

Dr. shiela Bora is a Professor of History in dibrugarh University of Assam. Twice honoured as a Fulbright scholar, she was at Harvard and Yale universities, where she worked for a post-doctoral project on American Baptist Missionaries and Women of North-East India. she has delivered a series of lectures at Yale, Harvard, Vanderbilt and other universities in the United States and elsewhere. In addition to research contributions in national and international journals, she has published her doctoral work as student Revolution in assam, 1916-47. She is also a member of the International Board of Advisors from India for the Journal of Women's History published from the hio State University, USA. Prof. Bora has travelled widely both in India and abroad. Since early childhood she had the opportunity of travelling through the length and breadth of the deepest forests and remote corners of the region with her father, an illustrious forest officer of erstwhile Assam.