Quest for identity: linking ethnicity, electoral politics and violence in Koch-Rajbanshi sovereignty movements of India

Ethnic groups involved in separatist movements have often been engaged in violence, rather than electoral politics, in order to fulfil their demands. The present paper analyses the dynamics of the sovereignty movements of the Koch-Rajbanshi community of north-eastern India, an indigenous group that...

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Main Authors: Chandreyi Sengupta, Debajit Datta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2019-05-01
Series:Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography
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Online Access:http://humangeographies.org.ro/articles/131/a_131_6_datta.pdf