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- ↑ "Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK CHURACHANDPUR (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations Manipur. 2011. p. 28.
- ↑ https://data.gov.in/resource/population-mother-tongue-2011-mizoram
- ↑ https://data.gov.in/resource/population-mother-tongue-2011-assam
- ↑ https://data.gov.in/resource/population-mother-tongue-2011-meghalaya
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