Assam’s fragile peace could be unraveling as its ethnic fault lines resurfaced again last week, claiming over thirty lives within the Muslim community. According to unconfirmed reports, over fifty ...

The latest flashpoint is the Assam government's proposal to create a new Scheduled Tribes category, ST (Valley), covering six communities The tension is sharpest along the Assam-Meghalaya border, ...

In a major and unprecedented development in Assam, thousands of tribal students and youth in the Bodoland region — dominated by the Bodo tribe, the largest tribal group in the state — stormed the ...

INDIA'S north-east is “an anthropologist's delight and an administrator's nightmare”, notes Sanjoy Hazarika, author of several books about the region. Its 39m people divide into 350 ethnic groups, ...