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Social movement is a tread and a process by which the people express their aspirations and ideologies. However forms and contents of social movements vary from situation to situation. We are to take a flexible and dynamic approach to understand the meaning, source, ideology and organisation of contemporary social movements. The papers brought together in this book were presented at a Seminar organised by the North-East India Council for Social Science Research at Shillong with special reference to women, youth and religion. Several scholars and social activists from the region and outside actively participated in it. The regional context and specificities of cultural ambience of India's north-east are clearly visible in these essays on social movements. The papers have been thematically put under the following categories: - Conceptual Issues, - Womem's Movements, - Youth Movements, - Social Awakening and Revivalism, - Religious movements, - Educational Movements, Although contributors have not adopted a uniform methodology to present their ideas but a common pattern is reflected in their themes and issues. The book should be Useful to researchers, planners, administrators and sociologists of North-East region.

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Mahendra Narain Karna is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He has also been Director of the A.N. Sinha Institute of social Studies, Patana(1991-94) and Honorary Director of ICSSR North-Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong 1994-96. Orior to this he taught at the Patana University and Indian Institute of technology, Kanpur. A prolific writer, he has so far published scores of articles on agrarian social structure, peasant movement and sociology of development. He has edited Studies in "Bihar's Economy and Society-1981", "Peasant and Peasant Protests in India-1987", and "Coedited Land Relations in North-East India-1987" and "Power to People in Meghalaya-1998".