Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Chapter Author | Page No. |
| Introduction | | 1 |
| Development, Displacement and Movement | | |
| Female Labourers in Tea plantations of Terai and Dooars: A Study of their Protest | Ratna Roy Sanyal | 27 |
| Development Hazards for Tribals in India | Debasree De | 35 |
| popular Movements in Post Independent India: A Case Study of the Rajbanshis of North Bengal | Madhab Chandra Adhikary | 56 |
| Development and Environment | | |
| Traditional Right of Forest-dwellers for Access over Forest: A Case Study of the Marginalisation of Forest-dwellers in the Eco-tourism at Rashik Bill Forest Village | Surya Narayan Ray | 89 |
| Colonial Transport Policy and Its Effects on Environment: a Study on Northern Part of Colonial Bengal | Utpal Roy | 108 |
| The trials of indigenous response : the conservation process in the colonized Sunderbans | Somnath Mandal | 127 |
| Development and Women | | |
| Human Trafficking : A Burning Problem along the Border Migration to West Bengal from Beighboring Countries | Shasanka Kumar Gayen | 139 |
| Role of MGNREGA to Empower the Rural Women: A Case Study of Malda DIstrict | Chandan Roy | 150 |
| Problem and Prospects of Development of Women in Economy of the Darjeeling Hills: A POst-Colonial Discoures | Kishan Harijan | 170 |
| Development and Education | | |
| Age Wise Gender Gap in Education among Tribal People : A Case Study of Rural Areas of Jalapiguri District | Samhita Chaudhuri | 191 |
| Growth and Development of Education in Jalpaiguri District under the Bengali Tea Planters in 20th Century | Supam Biswas and Kalidas Roy | 202 |
| Development and Demography | | |
| The Agrarian Metabolism of Nepali Migration, Demographic Change and the Emergence of Tribal-Adivasi Dichotomy in North Bengal in the Post-Colonial period | Udai Kumar Shaw | 221 |
| Partition, Refugee and Population Explosion, a case Study of a Bengal District, Malda, 1947-1961 | Ritabrata Goswami | 234 |
| Population Distribution and Immigration of the Santals into Malda District | Rajen Hemrom | 254 |