About the Author: Subhash Chandra Verma is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Government Post Graduate College, Rudrapur (U.S. Nagar) 263153, Uttrakhand, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra in 2004. His research interests include the socio-cultural study of the Tharu & Buksa tribe of India. He is currently working on a research project Tharu & Buksa Tribes of India. He published a book on the Tharu Tribal community (in Hindi) in 2008 and has presented many papers on tribal & Rural studies. He collaborates with a German Institution EDEJU ( the International Institute for Promotion of the Development of Youth), for study and research on Indian tribal youth. He is supervising research scholars who are working on tribal and rural -urban studies for their Ph.D. degrees in Kumaun University Nainital (India). He has presented research papers on Tharu and Buksa tribal communities at international conferences in the USA, Canada, China, Philippines, Korea and France. At present he is also working as Programme Officer in National Service Scheme of India. More information can be found on his own webpage.http://www.edeju.de/projekte/cleverle/denzlingen/Subhash/subhash.html