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The Manipur river basin has eight major rivers: the Manipur, Imphal, Iril, Nambul, Sekmai, Chakpi, Thoubal and Khuga. All these rivers originate from the surrounding hills. [99] Landscape view for dawn at Senapati, Manipur. Almost all the rivers in the valley area are in the mature stage and therefore deposit their sediment load in the Loktak ...
India tribal belt. India's tribal belt refers to contiguous areas of settlement of tribal people of India, that is, groups or tribes that remained genetically homogenous as opposed to other population groups that mixed widely within the Indian subcontinent. The tribal population in India, although a small minority, represents an enormous ...
Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. [ 18 ] It comprises eight states — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the ...
The hill tribes of Northeast India[a] are hill people, [b] mostly classified as Scheduled Tribes (STs), who live in the Northeast India region. This region has the largest proportion of scheduled tribes in the country. Northeast India comprises Assam and part or all of the former princely states of Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim.
Tripura (/ ˈtrɪpʊrə, - ərə /) [ 10 ] is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers 10,491 km 2 (4,051 sq mi); and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 3.67 million. 11 It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east and by Bangladesh to the north, south and west. 12 Tripura is divided ...
Meghalaya (/ ˌmeɪɡəˈleɪə, meɪˈɡɑːləjə /; [6][7] lit. "the abode of clouds" [8]) is a state in northeast India. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of Assam: (a) the United Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills and (b) the Garo Hills. [9] The estimated population of Meghalaya in 2014 was ...
Arunachal Pradesh (/ ərʊˌnɑːtʃəl prəˈdeɪʃ /; [19] lit. 'Dawn-Lit Mountain Province') [20] is a state in northeast India. It was formed from the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and India declared it as a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and largest town.
The Gondi (Gōṇḍī) or Gond people, who refer to themselves as " Kōītōr " (Kōī, Kōītōr), are an ethnolinguistic group in India. [5][6] Their native language, Gondi, belongs to the Dravidian family. They are spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, [7] Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and ...