Tribal Demography and Development in North-East India

Professor Ashish Bose was Head of the Population Research Centre, Institute of Economic Growth and subsequently, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow attached to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). His major areas of specialization include census methodology, urbanization, migration and population policy. He has served as United Nations Consultant/Resource Person, from time to time, all over the world. He was a member of the National Commission on Urbanisation and also the Expert Group on Population Policy headed by Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, which submitted its report to the Prime Minister in 1994. He was a member of Registrar General’s Technical Group on Population Projections (1996). Currently, he is Honorary Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, member of Independent Commission on Health in India. His recent books include: India’s Billion Plus People: 2001 Census Highlights, Methodology and Media Coverage, Demographic Diversity of India: Supplement 1998, Population Profile of Religion in India (1997), India’s Basic Demographic Statistics (1996), Demographic Zones in India (1995), India’s Urban Population (1994), India and the Asian Perspective (1993), Demographic Diversity of India (1991), Population of India: 1991 Census Results and Methodology (1991), From Population to People (1988, in 2 Volumes).

Tiplut Nongbri is on the faculty of the Centre for the Study pf Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She had her training in sociology at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Dr. Nongbri has done extensive research in the areas of tribes, family and kinship, environmental issues, gender and religion. Besides a co-edited book, Tribal Demography and Development in North-East India she has published a number of papers and independent chapters in well-known national and international journals and books.