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Renowned social scinetist and Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Culture, Union Government of India, Narayan Singh Rao, M.a., M.Phil. and Ph.D. was born and brought up in Udaipur, Mewar. He has great expertise on Economic History of Medieval India and tribal culture and history of North-East India. he started his career from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as researcher at the Centre for Historical Studies and Centre for the Study of Regional Development in the School of Social Sciences and got opportunities to work with National Labour Institute, Noida, South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, Mewar Institute of Management, Ghaziabad and a host of academic as well as development organizations. He was awarded Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He successfully executed several major research and action-oriented projects supported by the government and non-government organizations. He organized and attended a number of national and international seminars. A large number of research papers authored by him have been published a reputed national and international journals. Besides this volume his major research work in entitled Rural Economy and Society. he is also member of Indian History Congress, North-East India History Association and the Board of Under-graduate Studies, Arunachal University, Itanagar. The main areas of his interests are socio-economic and cultural History of Medieval Rajasthan and the tribes of North-East India. he is also pursuing further research studies on the history and culture of the North East India as well as the South-East Asian Countries.