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Megalithic traditions of North East India is not only diverse and unique, but also topical since it brings in an amalgamation of the past and the present. Starting at pre-history, but intruding into the historic and ethnographic present, these stones have innumerable stories and narratives connected to them. This book brings together fourteen chapters on megaliths of the region—which focuses not only on the diversity existent, but also one common thread that binds it all— its living nature. Megalithic Traditions of North East India is first of its kind—where scholars from six states of the region have put in their works at a common platform. The book unifies the region in terms of a living culture, but also underlines the multiple traditions existent in the region.