This volume is a valuable collection of selected research articles, contributed in the honour of Prof. J.B. Bhattacharjee, on significant aspects of history of northeast India, such as – historiography,  ethnicity, language and culture, socio-historical formations, labour and economy, non-monetized and non-hierarchical society, tribal communities, status and position of tribal women, brahmans and strategies  of  religious legitimation, oral tradition, colonial rule and socio-cultural changes, language movement, cultural continuity and change, contemporary art and society, etc. Scholars have systematically traced the historical background and the role of the people of this region including the Ahoms, Garo, Loi, Nagas, Manipuris, Muslims, and Bengalis. These articles also deal with some of the important events in the history of northeast India - the battle of Saraighat, Naga uprising, nankar  uprising, Dimasa kingdom, Subhash Chandra Bose and the INA  movement,  etc. Geographically these studies cover almost entire northeast India – Arunachal, Brahmaputra and Barak valley, kingdom of Manipur and Tripura, hills of Meghalaya, Patkai ranges, Indo-Burma-China hill tracks.

These well researched articles, critically analyzing new data and current knowledge based on scientific researches, give recent perspective on the History of Northeast India covering a fairly large span of time from early periods to contemporary.