Open AccessULFA’s Xhunor Axom1 and Negation of the State
Author(s) -
Bitasta Das
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
artha journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0975-329X
DOI - 10.12724/ajss.31.3
Subject(s) - prestige , honour , ethnic group , politics , negation , state (computer science) , power (physics) , sociology , identity (music) , sovereignty , democracy , destiny (iss module) , nation state , political science , gender studies , law , political economy , linguistics , aesthetics , philosophy , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , astronomy , computer science
ULFA responded to the larger sentiment of marginalization and exclusion within the nation by delineating an idea of separate peoplehood; exclusive of the nation. The idea of a people within a nation adorning the triple attributes—the people as a sovereign entity, which exercises power by means of democratic procedure; the people as citizens of a state, holding equal rights before the law; and the people as an ethnic community undifferentiated by distinctions of honour and prestige, but held together by common political destiny and shared cultural features— was fragmented by ULFA‘s formulation of identity.Keywords: Nation, Marginalization, Ethnicity, ULFA