This book seeks to address the issues of ethnic identity of the people of Northeast India and the process of their integration with the concept of Indianness. Investigating into some aspects of the social, economic and political history of the region, it discusses at length their economic life, their trade and commerce, and their relations with the immediate neighbours like Bhutan and Tibet.
Drawing evidence from the epics, the Puranas, the epigraphs and oral traditions, it analyses the contribution of the Mongoloids and Indo- Mongoloids to the development of the Indian civilization, with special reference to the Northeast region.