Colonial writers across the world have the tendency to call the recipients of their savagery as "savages". Their observations and narratives are prone to favor the oppressor. Today the ethnic minorities of northeast India are at the mercy of those who wield the pen in majority communities.
They are subjected to a sense of being patronized and ruled over in all walks of life.
There's a recent protest by the Bodo indigenous against the objectionable description of their people by others who used the terms "militant group" and a "violent tribe" in their books.
They aren't amused, understandably. They felt that history has been rewritten to their disadvantage.
Students of Bodoland University protested in the campus in Assam's Kokrajhar district:
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