The book takes up gender as a central issue and examines the gender dimension of globalisation: issues like women in fields like the sciences and cyberspace, economic equality and gender neutrality, and women’s safety. The essays on identity and marginalisation of tribes, dalits, the minorities, children and the disabled study themes bearing reference to different states: deprivation and dependent economic development among tribal women in Madhya Pradesh, caste dynamics relating to exclusion-inclusion of the Loi in Manipur and globalisation’s impact on minorities with reference to the Muslims of the mountain region of Kumaon, Uttarakhand. Penned by scholars from different disciplines, the essays deal with ethnic issues and the human rights angle referring to tribal communities of North-east India and the Nepalis.