Having spent the last seven years working with the
Tangsa people living in the Margherita subdivision of the Tinsukia district of
Assam and in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, I decided to spend a
few days exploring possibilities with the Moran-Motok people living in the
adjoining areas including Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Kakopothar and Bordumsa. The
Tangsa are basically hills people while the Morans and Motaks have lived in the
plains of the Brahmaputra valley as long as they can remember. But there are
many other striking differences between these two groups.
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