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Susmita Poddar is a Kolkata-based folklorist having the academic background in both the disciplines of geography and folklore. She passed Geography Honors from Presidency College, Kolkata and pursued M.A. and the Ph.D. degree in Folklore from Kalyani University. Nearly last two decades she has been concentrated on extensive research works on various folk groups including diversified tribal folks. Her postdoctoral research work on the migrant tea tribes of Dooars tea fardens of Himalayan foothills area got high appreciation by the scholars of the Calicut University, the affiliating institution of the study. In her academic career, in different capacities, she has been taking part in the teaching-learning process of various academic institutions like Folklore Department of Kalyani University, CEDEC of National Institute of Social Work And Soical Science (Bhubaneswar), Folklore and Tribal Studies Department of Dravidian University and School of Folklore and Tribal Studies of Calicut Uniersity. She was awarded one-year fellowship by National Folklore Support Centre of Chennai to study 'the Sacred Groves of Santals'. This book is the outcome of this study. She is also a recipient of 2006-2008 Off-Campus Associate Fellowship of Dravidian University for the research work on Uprooted Oraons: Crisis of Identity or Survival?' At present she is actively working among the migrant tribes of the tea gardens of Jalpaiguri. She has written some books and several articles on various aspects of folklore and tribal life.