One of the basic policies of the Government of India is to give a special priority to promote or the tribal people. The idea of autonomy and self-governmental of India, through the Constitution of the country, provides district level autonomy for tribal people. This is known as the VI Schedule of the Constitution. However, most of the common people, particularly, of Manipur are not able to have a detailed information about the nature of the working of the District Council in the tribal area. So, sometime a sense of confusion was developed in their attempt to understand the working system. This monograph is the first of its kind of study on the functioning of District Council. In this work author analysed very critically about the nature of the functioning of the system of the autonomy in the District Council of tribal inhabited area. Indeed, it is a good exercise to brig awareness among the common people in general of the character of autonomy at district level. The publication of this monograph itself is also a big contribution to those research scholars who are intending to do further research work in this area.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajendra Kshetri
Rajendra Kshetri (b. 1959 in Imphal) did his Masters in Sociology from Bombay University in 1982. he was a Doctoral Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, during his doctoral days (1984-87). He joined Manipur University in 1989 as a Research Associate at the centre for Tribal Studies. He joined Nagaland University in 1997 as a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology. He was the Head of Sociology Department, Nagaland University, Lumami, for three years (2001-2004). Now serving as Reader in the same Department, he is actively engaged in research and teaching activities. He was Expert Consultant to the Ministry of Municipal Administration, Housing and Urban development (MAHUD), Government of Manipur, for preparation of a strategy report on Imphal City (2000). He has to his credit several occasional papers, completed projects including the recently submitted Maram Primitive Tribe project sponsored by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, New-Delhi (2002) and research articles published in reputed national journals. He was also a founding member of Nagaland Stage Human Rights Committee.
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