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- proper noun A state in north-eastern
India - proper noun history The former realm it was named after
- proper noun A
black tea named after the above Indian region where it is grown.
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- noun state in northeastern India
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Examples
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KOKRAJHAR (ASSAM): Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday put the onus of holding peace talks on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), saying the government was ready for negotiations.
The Times of India 2010
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KOKRAJHAR (ASSAM): Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday put the onus of holding peace talks on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), saying the government was ready for negotiations.
The Times of India 2010
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TEZPUR (ASSAM): At least four people including a CRPF jawan were injured when ULFA militants hurled a hand grenade at the busy Lakhsmi mandir area in Tezpur town of Assam on Wednesday, police sources said.
The Times of India 2009
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One said, 'I believe the revival in Assam is a genuine work of grace, because the people are paying their old debts.'
Daughters of India 1908
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The whole of your baggage in Assam is carried by coolies.
My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891
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It continued throughout the summer, even after the British administration in Assam ordered an end to the rescue because it wrongly believed the stragglers had been picked up.
Elephant Man's heroic rescue mission in 'Far east Dunkirk' revealed on film Stephen Bates 2010
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Similarly at the other end of the country in Assam, some militants rounded up Bihari labourers and shot them dead, because they felt that their local ethnicity was threatened by an infusion of these "foriegners".
Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In one the most horrific recent cases, a family of four of the Santhal tribe in Assam were stoned and buried alive for allegedly cursing a relative of the village chief.
India puts Witchcraft on school curriculum in effort to combat superstition-related murders 2008
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At least one attack in Assam culminated in the severed heads of two “witches” being taken as trophies and paraded in the streets.
India puts Witchcraft on school curriculum in effort to combat superstition-related murders 2008
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I wasn't aware of the incident in Assam, and I should have noted the lack of a reaction to the Bangkok bombings.
Terror's Trivial When It's Not Muslims JDsg 2007
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