Forests have played a vital role in the socioeconomic and cultural life of the tribal people of India, majority of whom lives in isolation in the forested regions of the country with perfect harmony, security and trust for many centuries and developed a symbiotic relationship with the forest. Forests are the basic support system for tribals. At the same time the survival and maintenance of forests are also equally dependent on tribals as they are protective for forests. Women have been primary players in the collection, processing, and marketing of forest produce who gather the bulk of food, fodder, fuel, gums, resins, herbal medicines and other forest products. In this book the author, herself from tribal descent, has drawn a cross-disciplinary portrait of tribal women's dependency on the natural flora through expression of their relentless labour, ethnobotanical knowledge, sociocultural behaviour, and economic status in relation to forest biodiversity. Rites, rituals, mores, totems, taboos, folklores and cultural traditions of tribal women of Jharkhand are also given elaborate treatment in comprehensive way. Definitely, this will prove informative and useful to academics, policy-planners and to all those who have quest to understand the plant human relationship.