CONTENTS List of Tables 7 Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 13 Introduction 15 1 Social Change in the North-East India: Some Methodological Issues 31 T.K. Oommen 2 On the Idea of 'Social Change': Towards a Conceptual Response to Transitions in North-East India 45 Prasenjit Biswas 3 Social Change and Extraneous Interventions Among the Hill Communities of North-East India 71 A.C. Sinha 4 Social Change and Development 116 N. Vijaylakshmi Brara 5 Social Change and Woman: Has She Acquired a New Identity in North-East India? 130 Manorama Sharma 6 Construction of Tribal Identity from a Socio-Historical Perspective 146 C.L. Imchen 7 Ethnicity and Social Change: The Context of Mizos 167 D.V. Kumar 8 Identity Politics, Social Exclusion and Dissolution of Culture Change: Issues of Re-distributive Justice in the North-East India 183 N.K. Das 9 Migration and Settlement of Nepalis in North-East India: A Historical Perspective 203 Tejimala Gurung 10 The Ongoing Naga Traditional Authority Under State Structure 225 I.L. AIER 11Entrepreneurial Development in the North-East India 235 Pariyaram M. Chacko 12 Structural Change in Meghalaya: Theory and Evidence 245 P. Nayak and S.K. Mishra 13 Industrialization and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Rural Community in Assam 277 B.N. Borthakur 14 Demographic Change and Ageing in the North-East India: Issues and Challenges 286 Debendra Kumar Nayak 15 Demography and Social Change in the Tribal Society of Tripura 305 K. Debbarma 16 Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Change in the North-East 318 Biswambhar Panda 17 Forests and the Tribal Life: Roots of Environmental Change Among the Khasis 336 Rekha M. Shangpliang Index 349