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Paddy or rice cultivation along the Assam-Arunachal border in north-east India. Also, women beating cereal husk with sticks to separate the grain. Cows pull the hull prior to cultivating the rice fields and Assamese women perform the Bihu or harvest dance. Arunachal Pradesh is a state of India, located in the far northeast. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Burma in the east, Bhutan in the west, and Tibet (now occupied by the People's Republic of China) in the north. Some of the territory is claimed by the People's Republic of China as part of South Tibet, although it is an integral part of India now. The northern border of Arunachal Pradesh reflects the McMahon Line, a controversial 1914 treaty between the United Kingdom and a