Ethnicity and the Tea Tribe of Assam

Abstract

This article will discuss an overview of Ethnicity and The Tea Tribe of Assam. In the age of migration, globalization, population transformation it has lead to the growth of heterogeneous societies. As a result, diversity in terms of ethnicity, language, religion, culture is found in most of the societies in the world. And in such pluralistic society ethnicity is one of the most expanding social phenomenons. The social scientists have done much work in the study of ethnicity and identity as because these issues constitute major issues of studies on the people and culture of the region. This paper mainly deals with the growing ethnic awareness among the Tea Tribe who is one of the major groups which reveals at present day population formation of Assam.