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During the last two decades or so researchers in different Universities of Northeast India have revitalized inquiry into the region’s pre-colonial history. No doubt they have contributed in varying degrees to the collation and organization of relevant data for their chosen topics and hence provided additional information on the same. But much of the focus of research has been on cultural and political history with hardly any consideration for the socio-economic ...
The Garos are one of numerous ‘tribal’ groups inhabiting India’s Northeast region. They were included for the first time in modern historical and ethnographical studies in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Since then there have been sporadic writings on the Garos right up to the close of the twentieth century. However, many of them have yet to get over the colonial bias in terms of methods, approaches and even ...