An ideal meeting ground for diverse
races, Assam gave shelter to streams of human waves carrying with
them distinct cultures and trends of civilization. Austro-Asiatics,
Negritos, Dravidians, Alpines, Indo-mongoloids, Tibeto-Burmese and
Aryans penetrated into Assam through different routes and contributed
in their own way towards the unique fusion of a new community which
came to be known in later history as the Assamese. Assam, however,
remained predominantly a land of the Tibeto-Burmese. The vast section
of the people of Assam belong to either to this stock or owe their
origin to the fusion of this stock with other racial groups. |
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