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Migration significantly influences or paves way for acculturation. Colonial Assam often saw deceptive or coerced migration of people from throughout India to work as labourers in the newly set up tea plantations of Assam. Naturally, this historical record of migration of people from different cultural backgrounds settling within the confined spaces of tea plantations result a complex process of acculturation. Their distinctive cultural aspects, and blend of their ancestral traditions to adaptation to the new environment (Assam) fostered to form a close-knit community within the Assamese society. There are a few novels in post-independence Assamese literature that provide crucial insights into the toilsome lives and evolving cultural landscapes of tea garden worker's community in Assam. Seuji Pator Kahini (1959) by Birinchi Kumar Barua shines as a pioneering literary voice illuminating the lives of people in Assam's tea plantations. This research paper will analyse the depiction of acculturation among the characters in Naharani tea estate, specifically noting how migration serves as the primary catalyst for acculturation in the novel, taking into account relevant historical facts. Also, John W. Berry's theoretical framework of acculturation will be used to analyse the novel Seuji Pator Kahini (1959).