Makum, a trinity point of three premier towns connecting Tinsukia, Digboi and Doomdooma is entombed with a historical legacy of Chinese community, whose population and bequest is fast dying away with the passage of time.
The name Makum itself means ‘meeting point’ in Chinese, where a community of Chinese people continue to reside even today, conjecturing their existence in the Upper Assam district of Tinsukia since Indo-China war era who were brought here in Assam as labourers to work in the tea gardens in the...
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