Subhash Chandra Verma is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Government Post Graduate College, Rudrapur (U.S. Nagar) 263153, Uttrakhand, India. He completed his Ph.D. from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra in 2004. His research interests include the socio-cultural study of the Tharu tribe of India. He is currently working on a research project on awareness among the youth of Tharu Tribes of India. He has been continuously engaged in research on Tharu and Buksa tribes since 1999. He published a book on the Tharu Tribal community (in Hindi) in 2008 and has presented papers on this tribe. He collaborates with a German NGO, the International Institute for Promotion of the Development of Youth,' for study and research on Indian tribal youth. He is guiding research and two research scholars are working on Tharu and Buksa tribes for their Ph.D. degrees in Kumaun University Nainital (India). He has presented research papers on Tharu and Buksa tribal communities at international conferences in the USA, Canada, China, Philippines, Korea and France. More information can be found on his own webpage.http://www.edeju.de/projekte/cleverle/denzlingen/Subhash/subhash.html