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Volume : V, Issue : II, March - 2015 AN ACCOUNT OF TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH-EAST Zehirul Islam, - By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Since the post-World War II years when development become a focus of concern
within the western social sciences literature, the concept itself and the perspectives in which it
has been cached have undergone a series of dramatic changes. Initially the concept was
interchangeably used with ‘growth’ today, today, the two are clearly distinguished. Growth has
more limited connotations and is generally delineated by such quantifiable indices as GNP or
per capita income. Development on the other hand implies a kind of structure change in all
aspects of society. They means certain core processes of charge whereby a society or part of is
transformed to the economic sphere from subsistence production to mass production from
predominance of primary sector to secondary and tertiary sector from use of animal and human
power to inanimate power in production, distribution, transport and communication. In the
social sphere it entails a process of high social differentiation and specialisation with respect to
institutional structure and individual activities where role recruitments are based on
performance rather than on ascription. The researcher, thus, tries to make a discussion on the
tribal population of the country with special reference to North-East India Keywords : Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'.
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