Abstract In the present paper, an attempt has been made to study the age at menarche and menopause of the women among Saharia – a primitive tribe of Madhya Pradesh. In women life, menarche and menopause are the significant and inevitable events which indicate a particular adult stage of first periodical flow of blood from womb and ceases to ovulate and menstruate respectively in all healthy women. As primitive tribe, Saharia are positioned under socio-economically backward condition. Mean age at menarche and menopause of women are varied in regarding the different background factors like – nutritional status, family size, medical facility, genetic factor, environment, education, birth rank, living standard, socio-economic condition, etc. In comparison with various studies, mean menarcheal and menopausal age of Saharia women have been found to be high (13.5 ± 0.84 years) and low 44.6 ± 1.17 years) respectively. Malnutrition, paucity of clinical facility, harsh environment, low socio-economic status, etc. may be assessed as the attributed reasons of high mean age at menarche as well as low mean age at menopause of Saharia women.