The Contentious Politics of Indigeneity in Assam

Name of Author : Debasreeta Deb

Abstract: Self-identification as indigenous people at the individual level subject to acceptance by the community, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories who consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them, possessing distinct socio-cultural and economic and political characteristics as against the rest of the society which they strongly resolve to reproduce to their progeny as well as maintain and preserve and existing as subjugated and marginalised groups in the society. iThe rising consciousness about indigeneity stemming mainly from the history of territorial and cultural belonging of people is a postcolonial construction, which were subdued and marginalised through colonial conquest and is now being increasingly recognised and acknowledged in the contemporary postcolonial world order

Keywords : Politics of Indigeneity, Contentious, Assam

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