Chakravorty. Space and Culture, India 2018, 6:3 Page | 170 https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v6i3.376 PERSPECTIVE OPEN ACCESS An Account of the Meyor Community of Arunachal Pradesh Mridul Kumar Chakravorty† Abstract At the heart of this research is a description of the Meyor community, one of the least known tribes of the world. Geographically, this community is found in the Walong and Kibatoo circles of Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. Drawing upon ethnographic research, supplemented by interviews, this article aims to describe an account of this hidden tribe. Keywords: Meyor, Zakhring, Ethnographic Observation, Anjaw District, Arunachal Pradesh, India † Independent Researcher, Email:
[email protected] © 2018 Chakravorty. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Chakravorty. Space and Culture, India 2018, 6:3 Page | 171 Introduction organisation (BRO), now known as General Meyor is one of the hidden frontier tribes Reserve Engineer Force (GREF). At the same geospatially found amidst the rugged landscape time, one can argue that the elements of the of Walong, a cantonment and an administrative second category are also visible amongst the town and Kibatoo circle in Anjaw district, Meyor community. This article aims to portray Arunachal Pradesh of India’s North East. One the challenges of the community. The article can, of course, imagine as to how the begins with a brief background with North East sequestered habitation of this rarely known India in general and Arunachal Pradesh in tribe are shaped by terrain, topography and particular.