It is a pleasure to write the foreword to a book that brings together a large number of promising young scholars working on Northeast India, most of who had gathered in Gangtok in November 2016 to participate in a truly international and multi-disciplinary seminar organized by the editors of this volume. It is also a matter of per- sonal satisfaction for me that the volume is being published by a well-respected publishing house in India because I had partially arranged the fund for the seminar from the resources of Sikkim University. It took about three years for the book to see the light of the day but that is about the usual time it requires to chase the authors for submission of, ofen multiple, revised drafs. Editing such volumes can actually be quite tedious and even frustrating at times. I therefore congratulate the editors on successfully man- aging such a large number of authors to fnalize their respective chapters for this volume.