The Tribes Of Meghalaya

It is a pioneering effort in planning and preparing a biblography of this kind in a single Volume in order to focus the different aspects of the tribes of Meghalaya with brief descriptions, definitions, biblographies, index, maps, plates, illustrations etc. The literature on Meghalayan Tribes is found scattered over several publications. This consolidated single volume biblography has been designed to assist the scholars and Researchers to facilitate their researches on the Tribes of Meghalaya so that the Anthropologists, Sociologists, Geographers, Demographers, Historians, Enthropologists, Archaeologists, Lawyers, Technologists. Psychologists as well as Librarians may have a ready-reference tool for their reference & research without wasting their valuable time in collecting and compiling the vital data from different sources. This Bibliography is to help them understand how far research work has been done in different aspects of life and culture of the Meghalaya tribes. A researcher planning to conduct further research may select his own research theme from it. This indicates how far research work in the pre and post independence period has been done on the Khasis, Jaintias, Garos and the Hajongs. Anthropological research makes contributions to the general theory of society and culture as well as it serves as an important policy science. This Bibliography will definitely assist the scholars in knowing about the documents which are available on Meghalayan Tribes regarding their economic, social, political, religious, linguistic aspects etc. Such a reference tool of inestimable value must be the proud possession of all libraries-academic, public & private so as to facilitate research on Meghalayan tribes.