[PDF] Tribes Of Assam eBook

Author : Hemanta Saikia
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3656868808

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Essay from the year 2013 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The Mising is a major ethnic group of north east India and second largest tribe in Assam. As per 2001 census the Mising constitutes 17.8 percent of the tribal population of Assam and the total numbers of Mising population is 587,310. They are found mostly in Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Dibrugarh Dhemaji and Golaghat Districts of Assam. The Mising, being riverside people, have special liking to live on the riverbanks in spite of the fact that they have to face the flood of the river during the monsoon. Sometime flood force them to shift their villages. The Mising are still very backward and their socio-economic conditions have not developed. This essay attempts to explore the socio-economic condition of Mising people of Assam. Despite of the development of the socio economic structure of the Missing tribes, there is a gap still remains the socio economic development. Even though constitution provided a strong framework for the development of the Mising tribes they are still remain backward and so still strong foundation for the development of them is needed.

Author : Sipra Sen
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :

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This is a multidisciplinary book on Anthropology and Sociology. The textual part of this book covers the description of the Assam State and ethnology of the tribes and castes. The exhaustive bibliography has almost all the comprehensive inventory research source materials of monographs, articles, dissertations, reports, proceedings etc. of pre-and post-Independence period from the year 1792 to 1996. This book is perhaps the first ever scholarly effort to enlist the major up-to-date references, without any duplication, on different aspects of tribes and castes along with the textual part of description and appendices. The introductory chapter describes the main aspects of geography, agriculture, forest, geology, historical and political administration, district-councils etc. with ethnological aspects of about sixty communities. Besides these, this book provides a basic knowledge about its twenty-three districts and descriptive ideas on many other aspects of land and people of Assam. The exhaustive bibliographical part will definitely assist the scholars to locate the documents on different aspects of Assam and its people relating to anthropology, sociology, socio-religious, socio-political and socio-economic aspects, linguistics, demography, psychological facts etc. It has several detailed maps, photographs, sketches and tables which are the attractive features of this book. The appendices of glossary of words, lists of Scheduled Tribes and Castes and Chronology of Ahom and Koch reigns are also very helpful. The Author and Subject Index makes the consultation of this book easy. This will definitely serve as a ready reckoner. This can be used also as a general guidebook for all.

Author : Thomas Pulloppillil
Publisher : Indian Publishers & Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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Papers of a seminar on Adivasis of Assam.