Today there are approximately, twelve million tribal population in Madhya Pradesh. Their language and behavior has become the focus of much interest, practical as well as scholarly. This timely volume deals with Central India (Madhya Pradesh) as a unit and is exclusively concerned in exploring the inter-relationship between Language and Ethnicity of the tribes in Madhya Pradesh. It has implications for India and because of its focus-language, ethnicity and history- it has implications for all regions-culturally and linguistically distinct-of the Third World.