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Synopsis This is a study into the social economy of a remotely located tribal village in Himachal Pradesh. The village studies, is called Chhitkul, which is the last village on the Indo Tibetan border ink district Kinnaur and remains buried under know for 5-6 months in the year. It is one of the very few village studies for which the field work has been done by the authors themselves by continuous stay with the people in the village. The village presents several peculiarities in occupational pattern, crop husbandry, livestock rearing, housing, social customs, marital system, role of women ink a polyandrous group, distillation and consumption of liquor, mode of living, authority of village deity and her progressive outlook etc. The study has brought out vast scope for the development of this village, located in a difficult terrain. For reasons of extremely cold climate, only one crop can be grown in a year. As such sheep and goat rearing makes the economy agro-rearing makes the economy agro-postoral. The suggestions are based cottage industries, marketing factilities, saw mill, know-how and do how in vegetable production, health and child welfare schemes, minihydro-electric generator, etc.