About the Book: Autonomous District Council and Tribal Welfare (North East
India)
Life of tribals is not easy. The term Scheduled Tribes refers to specific
indigenous peoples whose status is acknowledged to some formal degree by
national legislation. A collective term in use locally to describe most of these
peoples is Upajati. Since time immemorial forest has been the habitat of the
tribal people in all the countries with tribal population. in India almost all
the tribal groups are found in their forest inhabit, although some of the tribal
population may also be found in non-tribal villages, towns and cities. Most of
the tribal communities inhabit the