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The Misings are one of the major tribes of Assam. They are an Indo- Mongoloid ethnic group. They are mainly found in riverine areas of Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Tinsukia and Sonitpur district. The Misings are distinguished by their unique traditional economic system, social system, family system, rituals and cultural system. Now- a- days, there are some changes occuring on their way of social life because of globalisation, influence of communication and also because of their contact with various ethnic groups of India. Due to influences of globalisation, some considerable changes have taken place in their livelihood, patterns of house construction, marriage system, dress, Jewellery, food habit, language, religion, festivals , folk songs and folk dances etc. So in this paper an attempt has been done to understand the influences of globalisation and the changes taking place in social life of the Mising community. The study is basically based on the observation of the participant and through unstructured interview method.