India is the home of largest portion of tribal people of the world. There are as many as 700 tribes are living in the land. It is reported that the tribal are still living a miserable lives without access to basic amenities such as education, health, food, sanitation, employment, communication and government schemes. So their education is must for the development of the nation. There are numerous challenges for the society for the overall development of tribal in the country. In this connection, this book is initiated to move ahead the discourse of tribal in the country. The author himself belong to this group of people and has been working on tribes at different junctions and contributed some works on the problems and prospects of tribes in India. This book is a compilation of different papers presented at different places by the author. This book not only limited to tribal, but also the general problems of our society and entire educative process. So, it is the hope that this work may help people to broaden horizon of tribal issues who are directly or indirectly connected with them academically or in general.

Steen Pagan is a Ph.D. research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His interest on indigenous people of India led to several works on tribes including this. Apart from this, he has also administrative experiences. Right now, he is working on the habitations and indigenous knowledge of Kharia tribes.