Preserving Ethnicity- A Study of the Tai-Phake community of Namphake village, Dibrugarh District (Assam)

The Tai-Phakes who belong to the great Tai race entered Assam in the 18 th century and gradually settled in nine villages in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts. Namphake village situated few kilometers from the town of Naharkatiya in Dibrugarh district is one of the earliest Tai-Phake villages. Just like any other community, the Tai-Phake community has also been influenced by modernism , however, it has been able to maintain its ethnicity with respect to marriage, dress, family, religion .This has been possible due to the attitude of the people towards their culture and also due to the strong desire and efforts of these people to preserve their culture in spite of the effects of modernization and globalization.