The book, a collection of occasional papers written at various times for seminars, conferences and journals, is a study of the sequences of development in Meghalaya, a state of the north-eastern region of India inhabited by the Khasi-Jaintias and Garos, two scheduled tribes in constitutional terms. The author analyses the implications of change through a process of modernization and development in a society where the peoples' lives are interwoven into their traditional systems. It is a study of the sequences of development, of tradition, continuity and change.