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Title:
SOCIETY, FAMILY, VILLAGE AND HOUSING PATTERN - A STUDY OF THE SINGPHOS OF NORTH EAST INDIA

Authors:
Ashwini Machey

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Ashwini Machey
Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh- 4, Assam, India

MLA 8
Machey, Ashwini. "SOCIETY, FAMILY, VILLAGE AND HOUSING PATTERN - A STUDY OF THE SINGPHOS OF NORTH EAST INDIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 3, no. 1,jan. 2018, pp. 16-22, ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=2. Accessed 2018.
APA
Machey, A. (n.d.). SOCIETY, FAMILY, VILLAGE AND HOUSING PATTERN - A STUDY OF THE SINGPHOS OF NORTH EAST INDIA. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 3(1), 16-22. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=2.
Chicago
Machey, Ashwini. "SOCIETY, FAMILY, VILLAGE AND HOUSING PATTERN - A STUDY OF THE SINGPHOS OF NORTH EAST INDIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 3, no. 1 (january 2018), 16-22. Accessed , 2018. ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=2.

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Abstract:
The Singphos are one of the frontier tribe inhabited in the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh adjoining the Patkai hill in North East India. In China this tribe is known as Jingpo and in Burma as Kachin. A total of 7958 Singpho people with 3999 males and 3959 females are living in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh (Census 2011). Large concentrations of this people are in Tinsukia district of Assam and Changlang, Lohit and Namsai districts of Arunachal Pradesh. Moreover, small sizes of the Singpho speaking people are living in Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat and Karbi Anglong districts of Assam.

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