Singpho dance by women of Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh

Folk dancers of Arunachal perform Singpho dance during the World Tourism Day celebration Arunachal University in Namsai.

Singpho, one of the powerful tribes living in plains and hills of Assam has the glorious story to tell about their deep-rooted eco-social and cultural aspects in greater Assamese national life.
The Singhpho are a hilly tribe of Mongoloid origin. Though their site of preoccupation is not known, the story goes that their abode was in the hills Singra-Boom in Tibet and from there formed several groups. Out of these groups, one went to China, one to Burma (now Myanmar), and the rest came over to India and settled in the hilly region, It is to be noted that the Singpho in China are known as Singpho

The Singpho have no written history of their own. As such their life history more or less depend upon legends. As the saying goes, their settlement in Burma was in the Hookang valley extended up to Patkai Hills. Due to the atrocities by the Burmese upon them or blooming of Bamboo flowers and subsequent famine, the Singpho entered into the eastern part of India, presently known as Dihing Patkai region.
During the first three decades in the 19th century, the continuous invasion of the Manns particularly in the conflict of the Sadiya Saikhowa battle most of the Singpho returned to their original home land Burma and few of them stayed back in the Patkai-foot hills.

After Indian Independence, the geographical location of the Singpho got divided and as a result a section of Singpho settled in the Lohit and Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh and the rest stayed in the foot hills of the Patkai range, the region covering Bisagaon, Inthem, Ketong, Khatanpani, Kotha, Ulup, Hassaek village.etc, in the Margherita Sub Division under Tinisukia District.

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