COMMUNITIES OF NORTH-EAST INDIA

 

ADIVASI

DIMASA

NAGA

 North-east India has over 220 ethnic groups and equal number of dialects. The hills states in the region like Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland are predominantly inhabited by tribal people with a degree of diversity even within the tribal groups. Besides the indigenous inhabitants people from Tibet, Burma, Thailand, West Bengal and Bangladesh have migrated into the region at various periods of history.

• Adivasi
• Assamese
• Bengali
• Bhutia
• Biate
• Bodo
• Chakma
• Chhetri
• Dimasa
• Garo
• Gurung
• Hajong
• Hmar
• Hrankhwl
• Jamatia
• Karbi
• Khasi
• Khampti
• Koch
• Kom
• Kuki
• Lepcha
• Lushai
• Meitei
• Mishing
• Mizo
• Naga
• Nepali
• Noatia
• Paite
• Pnar
• Purvottar maithili
• Rabha
• Reang
• Singpho
• Tamang
• Tiwa
• Tripuri
• Zeme Naga
• Chorei

Two cultures 

Geographically nd culturally, the region now called north-east India is situated between the two traditions of Indic Asia and Mongoloio Asia. This geographical-cultural condition of "in-betweenness" is an important factor in the area’s crisis of identity. The leaders of the present-day "underground outfits" continue to struggle for independence, as the political integration of the northeast to India was brought about without the approval of its people.The people of hills, who are ethnically Mongoloid, refuse to accept the caste-ridden social system advocated by Indian culture. Similar struggles for independence are also going on in other northeastern subdivisions or sister regions, such as Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Nagaland. However, the heavy and privileged status of the security forces in Northeast India, as well as seeming discriminatory treatment against Northeast Indians (see Ethnic relations in India) remain factors that contribute to tensions in the region.