Paper Details

Name: Ratul Borah
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-12, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 36-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17043561

1. INTRODUCTION:
North eastern region of India comprises the Seven Sisters States of Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam, Monipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. It covers 7.76% of the
country‟s total geographical area of 32.87,240 sq. km. The North East India lies between
latitudes 22 and 29.5 and longitudes 89.70‟ and 97.30‟E. According to 2001 census, the total
population in entire North-East India is 3, 85 core out of which the scheduled tribe population
is 1.06 core. In words, the scheduled tribes constituted 27.42% of the total population N.E.R.
There are many scheduled tribes, scheduled caste, OBC, MOBC, general etc. in the state of
Assam. Assam alone account for 3% of the total scheduled tribe population of the North-East.
According to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes others (Amendment) Act, 2002 there
are, 25 scheduled tribes in Assam.
Keywords: Personality, Mishing, Adolescent, Assam, NER , Psychological