Folk Textiles of Northeast India

Arranged by Region

General
1964 Bengal Kantha, Marg, March, Marg Publications, Bombay.

Chib, Sukhdev Singh
1984 Caste, Tribes and Culture of North Eastern India. Ess Ess Publications, Delhi.

Dalton, Edward T.
1872 Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal. Government (of??), Calcutta.

1872 Tribal History of Eastern India. Government (of??), Calcutta.

Das, S. T.
1978 People of the Eastern Himalayas. Sagar Publications, Delhi.

Elwin, Verrier,
1959 The Art of the North East Frontier of India. NEFA, Shillong:.

Watt, Sir George
1903 Indian Art At Delhi 1903. Government Printing, Calcutta.

Willis, Elizabeth Bayley
1987 The Textile Arts of India's North East Borderlands, in Arts of Asia, Jan-Feb.

Arunachal Pradesh
Baruah, Tapan Kumar M.
1960 The Idu Mishmis. Shillong

Chowdhury, J.N.
1982 Arunachal Panorama. Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Shillong.

Gogoi, Lila (compiled by)
1971 The Tai Khamtis. Chowkham (NEFA): Chowkhamoon gohan

Johri, Major Sitaram
1933 Where India, China and Burma Meet. Thacker Spink and Co., Calcutta.

Nair, P. Thankappan
1985 Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. Spectrum Publications, Gawhati.

Pandey, B.B.
1974 The Hill Miris. Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Shillong.

Pegul, Nomal
1981 The Mishings. Published by Mrs. Monumati Pegu, Dhemaji (Assam).

Srivastava
1970 Among the Wanchos. Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Shillong.

Thakur, G.C. Sharma
1972 The Plains Tribes of Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar and Nowgong. Tribal Research Institute, Shillong.

Von Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph
1982 Highlanders of Arunachal Pradesh. Vikas Publishing House, Delhi.

Assam
Bahadur, K.P.
1977 Caste, Tribes and Cultures of Assam. Ess Ess Publications, Delhi.

Barkataki, S.
1969 Tribes of Assam. National Book Trust, Delhi.

Barua, Hem
1954 The Red River and the Blue Hill. Lawyer's Book Stall, Gauhati.

Datta, Parul
1969 The Tangsas. Government of NEFA, Shillong.

Government of Assam
1980 Tribes of the Assam Plains. Government of Assam, Gauhati.

Majumdar, Dhirendra N.
1978 Culture Change in Two Garo Villages. Government of India, Calcutta.

Meerwarth, A.M.
1919 The Andamese, Nicobarese, and Hill Tribes of Assam. Spectrum Publications, Gauhati

Nath, R.M.
1948 The Background of Assamese Culture. Dutta Baruah and Co., Gauhati.

Playfair, Major A.
1909 The Garos. United Publishers, Gauhati.

Bengal/ Bangladesh
Fisher, Nora
Kantha Textile from Bangladesh, in El Palacio, Museum of New Mexico.

Gorer, Geoffrey
1938 Himalayan Village. Thomas Nelson and Sons, London.

Jayakar, Pupul
1959 Cotton Jamdanis of Tanda and Banares, Lalit Kala, New Delhi, No. 6

Kramrisch, Stella
1949 Kanthas of Bengal, Marg Magazine, III p. 18-29

nd Unknown India. Philadelphia: Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Naidu, Srimati Padmaja
1963 Designs in Traditional Arts of Bengal. Government of West Bengal, Calcutta.

Manipur
Das, Rajat Kanti
1985 Manipur Tribal Scene. Inter-India Publications, Delhi.

Hodson, T.C.
1908 The Meitheis. B.R. Publishing Corp., Delhi.

Meghalaya
Bareh, Hamlet
1967 The History and Culture of the Khasi People. published by the author

Chowdhury, J.N.
1978 The Khasis Canvas. Published by the author

Gurdon, Major P.R.T.
1907 The Khasis. Government of Assam(?)

Mizoram
Chatterji, N.
1979 Puan: The Pride of Mizoram. Tribal Research Institute, Aizawl (Mizoram).

Dev and Lahiri
1983 Lushai Customs and Ceremonies. Mittal Publications, Delhi.

Shakespear, J.
1975 The Lushai Kuki Clans. Tribal Research Institute, Aizawl (Mizoram).

Soppitt, C. A.
1893 The Kuki-Lushai Tribes. Tribal Research Institute, Aizawl.

Thanga, Lal Biak
1978 The Mizos. United Publishers, Gauhati.

Nagaland
Bower, Ursula Graham
1950 Naga Path. John Murray, London.

Elwin, Verrier,
1961 Nagaland. P. Dutta, Shillong.

1969 Nagas in the 19th c.. Oxford University Press, London.

Ganguli, Milada
1984 A Pilgrimage to the Nagas. Oxford and IBH Publishing, New Delhi.

Hutton, J.H.
1967 The Sema Nagas. Oxford University Press, London.

Naga Institute of Culture
1968 The Arts and Crafts of Nagaland. Government of Nagaland, Kohima.

Singh, Prakash
1981 Nagaland. National Book Trust, Delhi.

Tripura
Government of Tripura
The Tribes of Tripura. Government of Tripura, Agartala (Tripura).

Singh, Ram Gopal
1981 The Kukis of Tripura. Directorate of Research, Government of Tripura

Compiled 7/31/89 by Judy Frater