This book is an attempt to comprehend factors and conditions responsible for the present level of literacy and education, quality of education and implications of education received by cross section of tribes from their human rights, development and empowerment perspective. It is also an attempt to suggest ways and means to ensure expansion of literacy and quality education among them to strengthen interface between education and development. Besides the students of sociology, social anthropology and social work, the book shall be significantly useful for planners, policy maker, NGOs and Panchayat representatives who are directly or indirectly engaged in the understanding and expansion of tribal education.