Tag: Goalpara

GUWAHATI : Amid the controversy around the setting up of private “Miya Museum” in Assam’s Goalpara, the district administration sealed the museum on Tuesday soon after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma raised questions on its funding. The museum was inaugurated in Dapkarbhita area of the district on Sunday. The term “Miya” is used mostly by the indigenous communities to refer to Bengali or Bengal-origin Muslims who have settled on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam since the late 1890s after the British brought them for commercial farming and other...