Synopsis Medical Geography of Indian Tribes is an attempt to convey to the readers that the poor tribals, even if they live nearer to the nature suffer from all sorts of diseases, the other people suffer. The tribal communities suffer two groups of diseases. The first group includes those diseases which have their origin in the poverty and backwardness other group of diseases include those diseases which they have contracted from modern civilization. Often some dreaded diseases are now endemic to the tribal areas. It is a social necessity that there should be fresh review about the food habits, living conditions and state of awareness of the tribal communities, as all these are basically responsible for the ill health of our countrymen who live in the forests.