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- North East Zone Cultural Centre (Used as information reference to all related articles on tribal groups of Arunachal Pradesh)
- Gender Analysis : Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh, from , previously on https://web.archive.org/web/20040803135211/http://www.mssrf.org/fris9809/index.html, Text based on the Case Study of Ms. Sumi Krishna. Gender Dimensions in Biodiversity Management : India. Report submitted to FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. June 1997.
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