The book Cross-Cultural Ethnobotany of Northeast India is unique in at least three ways. It deals with the plant resources of that region of India which is universally recognised as one of the centres of biological diversity and speciation on the earth, the northern Himalaya and east India. The region is ethnically the most diverse in India, the cults, races and ethnologies showing change very few hundred kilometres. Few such multidisciplinary treatises have been ...
