Boys in red-striped Assamese robes wander town, beating out tribal rhythms on their drums for anyone who will listen.

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The Bodos, among the earliest settlers in the Assamese plains, resent any outsider who encroaches on their tribal homelands.

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Nonetheless, it concedes a local officer may have succumbed to pressure from the militants and misused money from a company fund set up for the social welfare of the Assamese people.

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