Tribal women threshing cereals to loosen the edible part of cereal grain, in Arunachal Pradesh

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Women work for hours in the field threshing and winnowing the grain from the husk. Arunachal Pradesh is one of the 28 states of India. Located in northeast India, Arunachal Pradesh borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east and the People's Republic of China in the north. Itanagar is the capital of the state. China claims most of the state as part of Tibet and calls the disputed area South Tibet. Arunachal Pradesh also known as the "land of the dawn-lit mountains". Literally it means the "land of the rising sun" in reference to its position as the easternmost state of India. It is also known as the "Orchid State of India" or the "Paradise of the Botanists". Geographically, it is the largest among the