Adivasi is the collective term for tribes of the Indian subcontinent, who are considered indigenous to places within India wherein they live, either as foragers or as tribalistic sedentary communities. They comprise a substantial minority population of India, making up 8.6% of India s population, or 104.2 million people, according to the 2011 census. Adivasi studies is a new scholarly field, drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, agrarian history, environmental history, subaltern studies, indigenous studies, aboriginal studies, and developmental economics. It adds debates that are specific to the Indian context. Anthropological survey of India became the biggest anthropological research body of its kind in the world where hundreds of professional anthropologists got their employment. Indian scholars had developed indigenous models intending to apprehend the cultural matrix of India. This comprehensive book is an effort to provide developmental history of anthropology in India and tribal studies in the framework of anthropological models. The book will be an interesting study for students and researchers of anthropological studies.