Dibrugarh: AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharjya on Friday said tea tribe people are integral part of Assamese society. He was participating in a mass convention organised by the Chah Jangosthi Adivasi ...

As you travel northwards and eastwards through Assam, paddy fields start giving way to tea gardens. These are the haunts of people referred to as the “tea tribes”, a population of workers shipped in ...

As recommended by the Consultative Group chaired by Suhas Chakma, the Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam ...

May 10: Frontline tea tribe organisations today questioned whether the All Assam Students Union (AASU) had any right to comment on ethnic identity, asking it to stay out of the controversy as it does ...

The last decade has seen an explosion of writing from North-East India. While fiction and poetry from the region led the way, nonfiction, recording the history, politics, anthropology, environmental ...

In a move that will turn Assam into a tribal-majority state, the Centre is planning to notify six communities in the state as Scheduled Tribes. NEW DELHI: In a move that will turn Assam into a ...

The Assam govt is likely to give "ethnic tribe" nomenclature to four groups of Assamese-speaking Muslims—Goria, Moria, Desi and tea tribe Jolha—living in the Brahmaputra Valley who were earlier called ...

The definition of Assamese has undergone change over the years, and it must include people who have lived in Assam for centuries, such as Hindi speakers and the tea tribes, Chief Minister Himanta ...

On July 6, the BJP-led government in Assam approved the identification of five Muslim sub-groups as ‘Khilonjia Musalman’ or indigenous Assamese Muslims to set them apart from Bengali-speaking or ...

For decades, not weeks as the recent discourse in Assam would have us believe, the people of Assam, especially its scholars and litterateurs, politicians and bureaucrats, media and activists, have ...