Open AccessSocial Exclusion and Ethnic Mobilisation in Northeast India: Understanding the role of Elites
Author(s) -
Tarun Gogoi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scholars journal of arts, humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2347-9493
pISSN - 2347-5374
DOI - 10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i12.005
Subject(s) - elite , ethnic group , assertion , independence (probability theory) , assamese , state (computer science) , power (physics) , political science , social exclusion , ethnic conflict , political economy , gender studies , development economics , sociology , law , politics , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , physics , mathematics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , economics , programming language
The Northeast India has been passing through a serious ethnic conflict and turmoil ever since the independence of the country. The ethnic assertion of different groups are the manifestation of the urges and aspirations of these ethnic communities against exclusion and for their all round development. These assertions may be understood as a form of elite conflict. In fact, ethnic assertion is not something which is irrational and impulsive but it is a cover through which the elites compete and struggle for power. This paper is an attempt to deal with the questions such as how the elites of different communities mobilise the people of their respective communities? What strategies do they adopt to push through their objectives? What kind of exclusion motivates the elites of the ethnic communities to organise their respective communities? It is found in the study that the existing exclusion and conflict among the diverse communities of northeast India may be removed to some extent by mobilisation of the masses of all sections of people far beyond the interest of dominant Assamese elite and the elite of the ethnic communities as well as to end exploitation of the Indian State.