Encyclopaedia of scheduled tribes in India (Vol.2)

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 537 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 reference 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.