Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c48.s6.20

c48.s6.20

§ 91. **Assam Tribes.** The racial movements which have taken place in this part of India were cursorily set forth in the Introduction. Owing, no doubt, to the comparatively recent date at which successive settlements have occurred, and also, to the natural isolation of some of the tracts, which have thus been unaffected by alien inroads, the racial concentration coincides, as a rule, with the geographical position. There are exceptions, of course, as in the Central Belt, where a tribe has been cut off from its fellows, or the new-comers have been unable to effect a continuous occupation, but in most cases the tribes in question can be dealt with in groups which are geographical as well as racial.