The citizen finds a home: Identity politics in Karbi Anglong

Gaurav Rajkhowa; Ankur  Tamuliphukan; Bidyut Sagar  Boruah

The citizen finds a home: Identity politics in Karbi Anglong

Gaurav Rajkhowa, Ankur Tamuliphukan, Bidyut Sagar Boruah

School of Divinity

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Abstract

On a fact-finding trip to the Karbi Anglong district of Assam, the authors find that the “crisis of citizenship” is a structural phenomenon rooted in the history of capitalist development and community dynamics in the state. The current political dispensation of establishing the “Hindu” Bengali as the “citizen” is not only a breach of the universal principles of “citizenship,” but also has deeper implications for the unresolved ethnic conflicts in the state.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17-20
Journal	Economic and Political Weekly
Volume	53
Issue number	47
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2018

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

nationalism
Assam
Karbi Anglong
ethnicity
Hindu Bengali
citizenship
NRC

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