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About missing: The Misings, an Indo-Mongoloid and East Asian group of people, live in the eastern region of the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, India, with habitations scattered now in eight districts of the state, viz. Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Sibsager, Jorhat, Golaghat and Sonitpur. They migrated from the eastern Himalayan regions in Tibet in the hoary past and finally settled in the fertile Brahmaputra valley in Assam after having lived for long centuries in the Siang region of present-day Arunachal. While migrating to Assam, the Misings followed mainly the course of the Brahmaputra, gradually spreading to other stretches of land lying on the banks of its tributaries like the Dihing, Disang, Dikhow, the Subansiri, the Ranganadi, the Dikrong, etc. They are, therefore, basically a riparian tribe, but erosions of the river Brahmaputra have forced a section of Misings to move to other places away from rivers. Their population has some concentration in the districts of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and the Majuli subdivision of the Jorhat district. There is a small population of Misings in Arunachal also.

There is no foolproof explanation of the word ‘Mising’. As has already been mentioned, the Misings are a riparian tribe and so some think the word is a blend of mi ‘man’ and asi ‘water’. Some others consider it to be a blend of mi ‘man’ and yasing ‘white, i.e. ‘good (figuratively)’. But neither of the explanations can be taken to be conclusive.

Next to the Bodos, the Misings are the largest Scheduled Tribe in the state of Assam. The community-wise data of population as per the report of the Census of India, 2001, have not been released till the time of writing this introduction, but as per the census report of 1991, the population of the Misings in the state in the year of enumeration was 467,790 (Male – 239,388, Female – 228,402, Rural – 462,928, Urban – 4,862), which constituted around 16.3% of its total tribal population of the state (2,874,441) as per the same report. As far as their literacy is concerned, no separate figures for the Misings are available in the Census of India documents. The total literacy figure for the Scheduled Tribes of Assam as a whole is 62.52% (Male—72.34% and Female—52.44%), as reported by the Census of India, 2001. As the Misings are as advanced, or as backward, as the other tribes in the state educationally, these figures may be considered to be indicative of literacy amongst the Misings too.

Further, this is a village where the missing tribes are living together. They are mostly depends on their cultivation. Currently most of new generations are grown with literate and adobe the knowledge of happening world. Abhijeet Payeng is a most poplular person in this village as he is working as a Head Master (Teacher)and giving bright knowledge towards to village.

Communication: Borholla is the nearby small gathering place where peoples can make their shopping and higher studies. And the tehsil is Titabor under the district of Jorhat (main city).--- By Mr. M Payeng.