Tribal Customary Laws of North-East India

The British Colonial administrators imposed their law, justice and jurisprudence on the native people little realising the importance of the indigenous customary laws. Obsession with written records made them feel that the only nature system available was the "Dharma Sastra" which found an admirer in Warren Hastings. Even this traditional Indian law the Colonial scholars treated as inadequate, incomplete and contradictory. hence the imposition of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence on the native population. However, there are areas like the North-East India where the Colonialists did not impose their system and let tribal customary practices administered by the village council to continue. The scarcity of information regarding practices and sanctions of the tribal societies.