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THE FASCINATING WORLD OF ASSAMESE CULTURE The North Eastern states of India are the combination of what the famous journalist from Tripura Jyoti Prasad Saikia coined over a radio talk show the ‘Seven Sisters’ . The land of seven sisters includes the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura. The green and mountainous land of Assam has attracted tourists not only from Assam or India but also from the foreign countries. Assam is the land of diverse cultures and with various races such as Mongoloid, Indo-Burmese, Indo-Iranian and Aryan. The culture of the assamese people is rich and the exotic inhabitants of the state of Assam are known as the “Asomiya” (Assamese), also the state language of Assam. Culture is the art of ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society. Every state, its people has unique culture and this is what makes people different from the other people of other culture. The state of Assam has mi