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Contested frontiers
14 Nov 2021 12:48 AM ISTThe Assam-Mizoram land conflict is an outgrowth of two conflicting notions on boundary — demarcations shaped by natural factors and compartmentalised...
Insurgency to integration
6 Nov 2021 10:46 PM ISTWhile the Mizo Union wanted a separate state from Assam within India and the MNF took to violent means for a sovereign state, the eventual outcome was...
A reformulated demand
30 Oct 2021 10:58 PM ISTImposition of Assamese language throughout the region proved to be the trigger point for a transition from the longstanding demand for an effective...
A bumpy path to statehood
24 Oct 2021 1:36 AM ISTThe sophisticated road to the formation of Manipur state in 1972 had been made challenging on account of faulty interpretation of the Indian...
Tripura's tribal identities
17 Oct 2021 12:13 AM ISTImmigration of politically conscious Bengalis into Tripura after the independence through India’s ‘most porous’ border, and then the exodus of Chakmas...
Through political settlement
9 Oct 2021 11:12 PM ISTAgainst SRC’s argument of having united frontiers, demands for autonomy by moderate faction of Nagas culminated into carving out of Nagaland from...
Disintegration of Assam
3 Oct 2021 1:18 AM ISTDemand for a hill state on account of discontent between highlanders and plainsmen, coupled with the British need to establish buffer at frontiers,...
Seeds of disintegration
26 Sept 2021 12:14 AM ISTThe migration trend from Eastern Bengal to lower Assam, set by 1905 Partition, acquired religious colour on account of politics and, as 'integration'...
Northeast frontiers
19 Sept 2021 12:41 AM ISTDuring the late 19th century, the Assam frontier had several geographical additions and the region underwent demographic transformation with...
Re-emergence of 'Telangana' identity
12 Sept 2021 12:36 AM ISTThe case for separate Telangana got consolidated with the resurfacing of subsumed regional identities, which political parties found tough to go...
Telangana redux
5 Sept 2021 12:50 AM ISTApart from linguistic grounds, the failure of Gentlemen’s Agreement fuelled discontent among Telangana political elites, conceding to whose demands,...
Dual frontiers
29 Aug 2021 12:42 AM ISTWhile India’s claims over Gilgit-Baltistan and Aksai Chin stem from Dogra conquest of 1840, the Chinese incursion came as late as during the 1950s and...













