The Meches of Assam: Their Process of Acculturation

The Meches are a scheduled tribe in the plains districts of Assam. They are a numerically small tribe. Although their main concentration is found in the Mechpara area of present South Salmara subdivision of Goalpara district, they are found in small pockets in Khowang area of Dibrugarh district and also in Parkhowa area of the Karbi Anglong District just on the border of the Nagaon District In the *Sonitpur district also some Mech villages are there. The Mech families who are at present found in Khowang area of Dibrugarh district had migrated from Goalpara district during pre-independence days A good number of Mech families had migrated from the Goalpara district to the Dayang Reserved Forest area of Golaghat district also boardering Nagaland and settled there. The Mech families who are at present found in different parts of Tinsukia district migrated from Dibrugarh, Golaghat ard Sibasagar districts during post-independence period (1950's-1960's).