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.
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.
Students of Bodoland University protested in the campus in Assam's Kokrajhar district:
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