What Assam or for that matter NE 7(Sikkim excluded) sister states are getting from India as confederation, most of the time I hear dissenting views from NE people how India is using the NE states(oil, minerals) and doling out a few bucks as royalty and state funds also....
Quote from a NE Indian:
It is nothing to be surprised because NE was never a part of India or any Indian kingdoms before the British came and conquered this whole landmass and now the ones that should be part of India like Bangladesh and Pakistan are independent whereas the ones like Northeast that should be independent are under Indian Union.
Assamese is the only Indo-Aryan language in the north east while the rest are Tibeto-Burman and Khasi is the lone Austro-Asiatic language.
Since there has been not much interaction between the mainlanders or south Asian descent with the north easterners for many centuries differences will be there and this is highly noticeable in terms of traditions, customs, food and beliefs.
It is so different that we north easterners did not even get the chance to learn about our history when we were in school and because of that differnces the central government has decided its unnecessary for the mainlanders to learn about the Ahoms, Meiteis, Jaintias, etc but we unfortunately have to learn all that crap about the Mughals, Cholas, Guptas, etc which is not fair and in my view irrelevant, pointless and what's the point.
chai ij just...fantashtik!
