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  Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, Monpa, Sherdukpen, Adi, Aka, Apatani, Mishmi, Khamti, Nishing, Wancho, Nocte Tribes.
Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, Monpa, Sherdukpen, Adi, Aka, Apatani, Mishmi, Khamti, Nishing, Wancho, Nocte Tribes.
Arunachal Pradesh is the most remote part of the country tucked away in the North east corner of India.
This tribe settled in the areas of Bomdilla and Tawang have a strong affinity with the Bhutanese culture and traditions.
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Arunachal Pradesh, bordered on the south by Assam state, on the west by Bhutan, on the north and northeast by China, and on the east by Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) is a sparsely populated mountainous area in the extreme northeastern part of the subcontinent.
The state's main rivers are the Brahmaputra known in Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, and its tributaries, the Tirap, the Lohit (Zayü Qu), the Subansiri, and the Bhareli.
In western Arunachal Pradesh the main tribes are the Nissi (Nishi or Dafla), Sulung, Sherdukpen, Aka, Monpa, Apa Tani, and Hill Miri.
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Arunachal Pradesh, a land of Dawn-lit mountains is a thinly populated hilly track on the Eastern most part of India, surrounded on the three sides by international border with Bhutan to the west, China to the North and Myanmar to the East and Assam to the South.
Arunachal Pradesh is entirely mountainous except for thin strip of the flat land, most of which is adjoined to Assam.
Arunachal Pradesh is criss-crossed by innumerable mighty rivers and rivulets.
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 States of India - Arunachal Pradesh, Tours to Arunachal Pradesh, Holidays to Arunachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh ...
Arunachal Pradesh is a land of lush green forests, deep river valleys and beautiful plateaus.
The state of Arunachal Pradesh Bill was passed by the Parliament in 1986 and with effect from February 20, 1987 Arunachal Pradesh became the 24th state of Indian Union.
The sixth Dalai Lama was born on the soil of Arunachal Pradesh.
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Arunachal Pradesh provides for a broad spectrum of interest.Sociologists will see new socio-cultural patterns of the tribal people; historians, anthropologists and archaeologists will discover new ground for their research; naturalists will come across new genres and species while holiday-makers and sportsmen can occupy themselves in adventurous sports, mountain climbing and other forms of physical activity.
The tribes such as the Monpas and Sherdukpejns in Kameng and Tawang District who came in contact with the Tibetans in the north adopted Lamaism of the Buddhistic faith while the Khamptis in Lohit District who are an early migration from Thailand, practise Mahayana Buddhism.
In Arunachal Pradesh, polygamy is fairly common and here again the point in favour of the custom is that it provides additional hands required in the cultivation of the fields.
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 States and Union Territories
Arunachal Pradesh is a state in the northeast of India.
Arunachal Pradesh shares a border of more than 800 kilometres with China and is one of India's most isolated and inaccessible territories.
Arunachal Pradesh became a Union Territory in 1972, and a state in 1987.
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 Major Industries of Arunachal Pradesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arunachal Pradesh is a land of beautiful handicrafts comprising wide range in variety.
Arunachal basketery are beautiful not only because of the fine texture but also because of the unusual shapes.
Arunachal Pradesh is considered to be the "nature's treasure trove"and home to orchids, known for their exquisitely beautiful blooms, from one of the dominant taxa with more than six hundred species, occurring in varying elevations and climatic conditions throughout the state.
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 Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh, sparsely populated and mountainous state, north-east India, bordered on the south by Assam State, on the west by Bhutan, on the north and north-east by Tibet, and on the east by Myanmar.
The state's main rivers are the Brahmaputra, known in Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, and its tributaries—the Tirap, the Lohit, the Subansiri, and the Kameng.
Arunachal Pradesh has a single chamber Legislative Assembly with 60 seats and sends three members to the Indian national parliament—one to the Rajya Sabha (upper house); two to the Lok Sabha (lower house).
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 Tourism of India - States of India - Arunachal Pradesh
Right at the top of north-eastern India, is Arunachal Pradesh, the `Land of the Dawn-lit-Mountains.' The area is one of the most pristine in India, with a dazzling array of flora and fauna, in a habitat that combines glacial terrain, alpine meadows, and sub-tropical rain forests.
Arunachal Pradesh sits atop Assam, with Bhutan to its' west, and Myanmar on the east.
Arunachal Pradesh is the largest state in the north-east region.
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 Himalayan Travel Trade Journal:Amazing Arunachal
Secluded in the northeastern corner of India, Arunachal Pradesh is an idyllic land of picturesque hills and valleys.
Arunachal Pradesh has a glorious tradition of arts and crafts that reflect the rich and varied culture of the tribes inhabiting this enchanting land.
Arunachal Pradesh can be called a storehouse of handloom designs as its 20 major tribes and more than 100 sub-tribes have each got their own unique and fascinating patterns.
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Arunachal Pradesh has a number of wildlife sanctuaries, national parks and biosphere reserves, rich with wildlife.
Festivals and fairs of Arunachal Pradesh portray the glorious heritage of the state with enchanting folk songs and dances.
Arunachal Pradesh is famous for its cane and bamboo crafts practiced throughout the state by its tribes at the household level.
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 ARUNACHAL PRADESH-Main page
Arunachal Pradesh, previously known as 'NEFA' (North East Frontier Agency) is the largest state in the entire North East.
Arunachal Pradesh ranks 29th in the human resource development index and 30th in the poverty index in India.
Arunachal Pradesh became a state of the Indian union in the year 1987.
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Arunachal is the largest state area-wise in the north-east region, even larger than Assam which is the most populous.
The vegetation of Arunachal Pradesh falls under four broad climatic categories and can be classified in five broad forest types with a sixth type of secondary forests.
ARUNACHAL PRADESH, situated in the north eastern part of India is nearly 84,000 sq.
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Arunachal Pradesh has many species of endangered, endemic, primitive, and relict flora, Magnolia Pterocarpa pterocarpa is one such primitive angiosperm, which occurs in the foot-hills.
Arunachal Pradesh is also the happy home of the great Indian Hornbills-the set extraordinary bird with an inordinately large beak which is also the State bird.The white winged wood duck, a rare endangered species, has been sheltered in Namdapha National Park.
It is situated at the foot of the Siang hills under the Likabali Sub-Division of West Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh.
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 Arunachal Pradesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arunachal Pradesh borders the state of Assam to the south and Nagaland to the south east.
Arunachal Pradesh is divided into sixteen districts, each administered by a district collector, who sees to the needs of the local people.
Arunachal Pradesh has close to 61,000 square kilometers of forests, and the forest-products are the next most significant sector of the economy.
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 Places to Visit in Arunachal Pradesh
The capital of the state, Arunachal is scattered with light, earthquake-proof, wooden-framed buildings rising up the slopes of green hills.
Arunachal State Transport buses are plying throughout Arunahcal, Assam and Meghalaya.
Actual specimens from among the different tribes of Arunachal Pradesh are on display under different sections.
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 North East India Tribes,North East Tribal Tour,Tribes in North East India
Tai-Khamtis tribe hold to their Buddhist faith and got settled in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh, thus the area became the central platform for intermixing of varying cultures and religions, the main ones being Hinduism and Buddhism.
A common feature of the tribal population in north east region is weaving that is being practiced by all tribal groups in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and in the valley of Assam.
In the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland, upward of 90 percent of the population is tribal.
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It has been found that the tribes of Arunachal are integrated into groups independant of each other, living their separate lives.
The common denominators are that the pattern of lifestyle of each is the same and that they follow the same occupation; the societies are casteless; the societies are governed by chiefs and the adults were grouped according to their age for distinct social functions.
The tribes of the East, West and Upper Siang districts are mainly those classified under the general title of "adis".
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 Shopping in Arunachal Pradesh,Shopping Guide of Arunachal Pradesh,Arunachal Pradesh Shopping Information
Arunachal Pradesh is a land of beautiful handicrafts comprising wide range in fantastic variety.
The first of these zones includes the Buddhist tribe; the second occupies the central part (from east Kameng in the west to Lohit in the east); and the third zone is the eastern part of the territory.
Those belonging to the second zone of Arunachal Pradesh are expert workers of cane and bamboo.
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 Christianity elbowing out nature-worship in Arunachal - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In mid-1970s, at Lap Tap, a remote village of Arunachal Pradesh, Tana Sukia and his wife Tana Opu were anxiously hoping for a miracle to save their second-son Tagi, who had been suffering from multiple chronic ailments since birth.
Of all the north-eastern states, Arunachal Pradesh, according to the latest census report on religions, recorded the highest growth in the number of Christians — from 10.29 per cent in 1991 to 18.7 per cent in 2001.
Arunachal Pradesh is one of the first states to enact an anti-conversion act in late-1970s.
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 Northeast Vigil Factfinder » Arunachal Pradesh: Textiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Thus, weaving among the people of Arunachal Pradesh is as old as the story itself.
The use of certain kinds of clothes and ornaments is often associated with a family’s social position and achievements in the fields of hospitality and war.
The different tribes of Arunachal Pradesh have different weaving patterns and designs having their own symbolic meaning and legends associated with them.
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 People of Arunachal Pradesh - Tribal Tourism in Arunachal Pradesh - Tribes in Arunachal Pradesh : India Line Travel
All the individual tribes have a rich cultural heritage and the government is making all out efforts in helping conserve their traditional heritage.
The society of Arunachal is patriarchal and primogeniture and the fundamental laws of inheritance with variations are not uncommon.
Arunachal Pradesh is the destination for the cultural tourist.
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Spread over much of western Arunachal Pradesh, the Nishi tribe are easily distinguished by their customary form of dress, most notably their woven, feather adorned hornbill caps.
The Miju Mishmi and the Nishi have much in common, as do most of the tribes in Arunachal Pradesh; as local tales go, these Mongoloid people migrated into their present locations from some shared area in Tibet during only the last three or four hundred years.
The tribes of Arunachal Pradesh could roughly be separated into two groups: those who practice the animist belief system, and those who don’t.
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 BBC - Tribe - Adi
The Himalayan hill tribe's reputation as fierce warriors, and the inhospitable terrain in which they live, have ensured the survival of Adi culture for centuries.
Even today, many of the tribe have never met a European - their home is in Arunachal Pradesh which, until recently, was the only Indian state which was closed to foreigners.
Though the government has a policy of banning them from Arunachal Pradesh, Indian missionaries have made their way to the area in the guise of teachers and administrators.
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 Indian Tribal,Indian Tribal Adventure Tour,Tribes in India
The northeast is India's chief tribal area, and the numerous tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, Orissa, Nagalland, Manipur and entire region makes a glorious and colorful portray of Indian history through its ethnic world.
The tribes of Arunachal Pradesh bear many similarities to the hill tribes, who are mainly dwelling across an arc that extends from the eastern end of the Himalayas through Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand into Laos.
Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh are highly civilized, well nourished as well as, maintain calm and peaceful environment- there are no land disputes among the tribal folks.
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 Ziro India,Ziro India Tourism,Ziro In Arunachal Pradesh,Home of Apatani Tribes in Arunachal Pradesh
Wildlife in Arunachal Pradesh is both rich and colourful.
The rain forest areas of Arunachal Pradesh are the natural habitat of the Hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), the only species of ape found in India.
There are some places in Arunachal Pradesh that are cut off from the rest of the country.
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All the tribes are distinct and each of them have their own occupations, customs, costumes and festivals.
The Sulungs or Puroik are considered to be one of the oldest of the tribes in the area.
They are the only tribe in Arunachal who have a script of their own.
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Arunachal Pradesh in the shadow of the easternmost ranges of the Himalayas is a quiet tribal land of lush ravines, impenetrable bamboo jungles and steep hills.
Tourism in Arunachal Pradesh Tribal Woman Arunachal Pradesh is at the north-eastern tip of India, bordering Bhutan on the west, China on the north, Myanmar on the east, and the state of Assam on the south.
Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh, "the land of the dawn-lit-mountains", is one of the last unspoilt wildernesses in India, dropping eastwards from the high Himalaya near Bhutan towards Burma..
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Arunachal Pradesh is sure to leave tourists spellbound with its majestic beauty spread lavishly on the green hills.
Itanagar the capital city of Arunachal is a modern settlement built in the vicinity of the ruin of the 14th century fort old capital.
All prototype of the bamboo and cane architecture of dwelling of different tribes and apparel, design and functional tools and others handicrafts are display here and later drive to Ziro (150 km 6hrs) Enroute visit Nishi village.
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