Institute of Tai Studies & Research

It is worth mentioning that the Tai society, language, culture, literature have greatly contributed towards the larger human civilization and studies on them would obviously enhance the knowledge of mankind. In recent years, in the field of social science, the Tai studies have become one of the important academic branches in the form of Area Study which has attracted the interest of many scholars of our country and abroad. In every year a number of foreign scholars from the countries like Australia, Germany, Japan, Thailand, China and Myanmar make trip to the Tai inhabited areas of the Northeast India in search of primary research materials on various aspects of the Tais of the region. In the event of this, the establishment of the Institute of Tai Studies and Research is a commendable academic venture which has the potentiality of attracting the tourists particularly from Southeast Asian countries to this region. It may also act as a catalytic agent of socio-cultural linkage between India and Southeast Asia besides giving a boost to the Look East Policy of Government of India. In fact, it is the first Institute of this kind in India dedicated to promoting knowledge about the various Tai people of the world their language and literature, art and archaeology, religion and philosophy and their scientific and technological progress, their concern for health and hygiene, ecology and human rights, Impact of globalization on them and so on.