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Indigenous Identity in South Asia - Making Claims in the Colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts (Hardcover)
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Indigenous Identity in South Asia - Making Claims in the Colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
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In the immediate aftermath of the creation of Bangladesh in 1971,
an armed struggle ensued in its remote south-eastern corner. The
hill people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, more commonly referred
to as paharis, demanded official recognition, and autonomy, as the
indigenous people of the Tracts. This demand for autonomy was
primarily based on the claim that they were ethnically distinct
from the majority 'Bengali' population of Bangladesh, and thereby
needed to protect their unique identity. This book challenges the
general perception within existing scholarship that indigenous
claims coming from the Tracts are a recent and contemporary
phenomenon, which emerged with the founding of the Bangladesh
state. By analysing the processes of colonisation in the Chittagong
Hill Tracts, the author argues that identities of distinct
ethnicity and tradition predate the creation of Bangladesh, and
first began to evolve under British patronage. It is asserted that
claims to indigeneity must be understood as an outcome of prolonged
and complex processes of interaction between hill peoples - largely
the Hill Tracts elites - and the Raj. Using hitherto unexplored
archival sources, Indigenous Identity in South Asia sheds new light
on how the concepts of 'territory', and of a 'people indigenous to
it' came to be forged and politicised. By showing a far deeper
historical lineage of claims making in the Tracts, it adds a new
dimension to existing studies on Bangladesh's borders and its
history. The book will also be a key resource for scholars of South
Asian history and politics, colonial history and those studying
indigenous identity.
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