India is one of the countries having a large concentration of tribal population. In this, it ranks second in the world and comes next only to Africa. There are 5.37 different tribal communities spread all over India. According to the 2001 census, tribal peoples constitute roughly 8 per cent of the nation’s total population, i.e., over 84 million people. This encyclopaedic work in five volumes covers almost all related and relevant information about the Scheduled Tribes of India. The vast and detailed information contained in the this work makes it an ideal and invaluable references tool for the confirmation of sociological, anthropological, ethnological, historical, and cultural facts about the scheduled tribes spread all over the Indian subcontinent. This comprehensive, exclusive and exhaustive work will be an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers, planners, administrators, policy makers, government officials and others concerned with Scheduled Tribes and their development.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P K Mohanty
Dr. P. K. Mohanty is now working as a senior level officer in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. He has been engaged in the field of tribal development for last three-and-a-half decades. He has worked as a developmental administrator in different capacities in both State Government of Orissa and Government of India in the Ministries of Home and Tribal Affairs, Planning Commission and National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. He has visited most of the remote tribal areas in the country. He is associated as a member in different expert groups of Ministries of Science and Technology, Culture and Health and Family Welfare. As an academician, Dr. Mohanty has been associated with Central University. He has been trained in the University of Wales in UK on Social Development. He has been awarded Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from University of Ranchi. He is a regular guest speaker on various aspects of tribal cultural and tribal development in Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, Mussoories, National Institute of Child Development, Indian Institute of Public Administration, National Institute of Manpower Planning at Delhi and other Universities. He is a well-known Applied Anthropologist and developmental administrator in the country.
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