CONTENTS: From the Desk of Editor, Prologue, List of Contributors, 1. Introduction-Dr Amitabha Sarkar, 2. Economic Discontent and Corruption-Dr Amitabha Sarkar & Dr Samira Dasgupta, 3. Corruption, Culture and Insurgency: Two Narratives in Manipur-Prof M C Arunkumar, 4. People Vs Public: In the Domain of Anthropology (Note from a peripheral People's Anthropologist)-Dipak Piplai, 5. Crime and Punishment in a Tribal Society: Transitions in Time-Professor Geetika Ranjan, 6. Social Movement in view of Social Identity and Vote Bank (An empirical study)-Dr Samira Dasgupta, 7. The State of Corrpution: An Anthropological Analysis-Prof Abhik Ghosh, 8. Tribal Health in India through the Lens of Nutritional Indicators-Dr Susmita Bharati, Dr Manoranjan Pal and Prof Premananda Bharati, 9. Issues, Challenges, and Developmental Concerns in the Socio-Economic and Cultural Landscape of Tribal Communities in Assam-Prof Tiluttoma Baruah, 10. Towards a Political Anthropology of North-East India: Issues and Concerns-Prof Upala Barua, 11. Indian Forest Act and Forest Protection to Elucidate India as a Tree Planting Laboratory in the 21st Century-Dr Suparna Sanyal Mukherjee & Dr Saikat Kumar Basu, 12. Manipur Violence: Diplomatic Policy, Customary Law and Social Demography-Dr Amitabha Sarkar, 13. Power, Corruption and Identity in Rural Governance: An Ethnographic Study-Irfan Ali Banka, Muzamil Rashid and Prof Abhik Ghosh, Index.