The world of the hoolock gibbons in the Borajan reserve forest in Assam is dying, thanks to illegal tree-felling. |
Although latex was tapped from trees in parts of Assam, all the rubber from the East Indies got to be called India rubber. |
The overall relation between the Assamese and the other ethnic groups in Assam is not in active conflict now. |
The late seventies show the explosion of resentment among the Assamese people, in the form of a massive agitation, commonly known as the Assam agitation. |
The same story was repeated during another epidemic of brain fever in Assam. |
After that, we adjourned to the drawing room where Carlo served us a pot of my finest Assam and some cucumber sandwiches. |