ABSTRACT
A great deal of interest has been shown on engagement with the question of social exclusion and marginality in recent years. A number of seminars and workshops in the institutions of higher learning in different parts of the country are pointers to it. Such thematic concern has been relatively absent in similar academic exercises in Northeast India. This is not to say that issues falling under the gambit of social exclusion have not altogether been explored; rather they have been but not from the perspective of the social exclusion framework. This chapter attempts to lay out a broad schema for studying social exclusion and marginality in the region.
