Marginalised Identity: An Engagement With Art, Literature, Language and Ethnicity

M.C. Behera (b. 1959), M.A., Ph.D. (Economics) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, is an erudite scholar on Tribal Studies and Rural Economics. He has authored/edited/co-edited several volumes on socio-cultural, economic (especially on agriculture and religious life) of tribal people. To his credit, he has about fifty research papers on national and international topics published in various national and international journals/periodicals. He has presented about thirty papers in national and international seminars/conferences in the country and abroad. He has completed four projects sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi; UGC, New Delhi; KVIC, Arunachal Pradesh and UNESCO-IGNCA, New Delhi. He is a member of many professional bodies and the General Secretary of The Centre for Research and Analysis on North-Eastern Societies (CRANES), Itanagar. Presently, he is working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tribal Studies, Arunachal University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.