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    Tribes in India

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    A major portion of India lives in its Tribes. These tribes are the living example of how life was in the earlier days. These show what were the difficulties man had to face before the advent of machine and technology. See India through a different perspective in these tribes and tribal villages. 1.)Bodos - Tribe Of Assam Bodos are the true ethnic Tribal Community of Assam - the sub branch of the Bodo - Kachari Clan. The Bodos are the largest among the Bodo - Kachari Clan. They are also the most

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    Garo Tribe

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    Garo people The Garos are a tribal people in Meghalaya‚ India and neighboring areas of Bangladesh‚ who call themselves A·chik Mande (literally "hill people‚" from a·chik "hill" + mande "people") or simply A·chik or Mande.[1] They are the second-largest tribe in Meghalaya after theKhasi and comprise about a third of the local population. The Garo community is one of the major tribes in Bangladesh. According to the history books‚ the Garo tribe entered Bangladesh in the first century. They were refugees

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    The Assam Earthquake

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    The Assam Earthquake On August 15‚ 1897‚ more than 1538 people died. The cause was one of the biggest blind earthquakes in the world. This earthquake was at least an 8.1! Out of the earth‚ which was open for 5 days‚ came columns of steam and superheated liquid. Full villages fell into large cracks‚ dams broke and fields and towns flooded‚ forcing people into trees‚ where one woman gave birth. Put out your hand. Look at any one of your finger nails and watch it grow. This is what plate tectonics

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    Kur Syngkri Case Study

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    when it was ousted from raid Thaïang and migrated to raid Nongkhrah it was adopted there as a jait kong-san. The kur Syngkli is a jait pator in raid Nongkhrah; the kur Malai is a jait syiem in hima Malai-Sohmat but it is a jait daloi in raid Nongtluh‚ and so on and so forth. So the dorbar in the Khasi traditional concept was the council of the representatives of the kurs who had also a jait in any political community. The immigrant clans who had no jait in the political community were only

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    to have a ‘local raid durbar’ for their local affairs; however‚ Cantlie was of the opinion that because the rights of the clans are so deeply fixed in the minds of the people‚ a change to a dorbar elected by all the people is not possible in the Khasi Hills except in the War area (Cantlie‚ 2008-09: 187-188). This indicates that a dorbar where the representatives are elected by all the people irrespective of clan affiliations‚ like the dorbar shnong of today‚ had never existed in the Khasi Hills in

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    Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution By: Kshetri Bimola It was under the Government of Indian Act‚ 1935 that the hill areas of Assam was classified into 3 categories (1) Excluded areas (2) Partially Excluded Area and (3) Frontier Areas. The Excluded Areas were the Naga hills‚ the Lushai hills and the North Cachar hills. The Excluded Areas were the Naga hills‚ the Lushai hills and the North Cachar hills. The Garo hills‚ the Miker hills and the British portions of the Khasi and Jaintia other

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    Report on the field study of Ginger and Turmeric in Meghalaya PREFACE Meghalaya is a state which is rich in natural resources‚ be it from flora to fauna to the mineral resources‚ the state has it in abundance. Agriculture‚ including crop and animal husbandry‚ fisheries‚ forestry and agro processing constitutes the very basis of socio economic lives of India. One of the major activities in the state is cultivation of horticulture crops which includes that of Ginger and Turmeric. Ginger is being

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    Seven Sisters of India

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    states of Arunachal Pradesh‚ Assam‚ Meghalaya‚ Manipur‚ Mizoram‚ Nagaland‚ and Tripura. The region had a population of 38.6 million in 2000‚ about 3.8 percent of India ’s total. There is great ethnic and religious diversity within the seven states. For most of their history‚ they were independent‚ and their complete integration with India came about only during the British Raj. Most of the seven sister states are on the Eurasian Plate. (Excluding Southwest Meghalaya and the extreme west of Assam) [1]

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    entitled to get various benefits like Excise duty exemption‚ Central Sales tax/VAT exemption‚ Income-tax exemption‚ Working capital interest subsidy and Insurance subsidy. |   | Its Subsidiaries 1)Badarpur Energy Private Limited(BEPL) 2)Meghalaya Minerals And

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    Diffusion

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    Diffusion is the process by which a particular phenomenon --- such as a contagious disease‚ a technological innovation or even an idea --- is spread from person to person over a period of space and time. One method of diffusion is known as expansion diffusion‚ which is broken down into three distinct types. Expansion Diffusion * Strictly defined‚ expansion diffusion is the process of spreading something from one place to another in an ever-expanding "snowballing" process. Expansion diffusion

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