Votes, Voters and Voter Lists: the Electoral Rolls in Barak Valley, Assam
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Women in Electoral Politics: a Study of South Assam Smt
International Research Journal of Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Studies (IRJIMS) A Peer-Reviewed Monthly Research Journal ISSN: 2394-7969 (Online), ISSN: 2394-7950 (Print) Volume-II, Issue-X, November 2016, Page No. 64-69 Published by: Scholar Publications, Karimganj, Assam, India, 788711 Website: http://www.irjims.com Women in Electoral Politics: A Study of South Assam Smt. Tapasi Sinha Asst. Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Rabindrasadan Girls’ College, Karimganj, Assam, India Abstract The nature and success of any democratic system largely depends upon the extent to which equal and effective participation is provided to all irrespective of gender, color, caste, religion, race, language etc. Since, women constitute nearly half of the total population their equal participation in all spheres of life including politics is very important. This is because such participation will enable them to be a part in the decision making process which, in turn, will help in their development as well as empowerment. Moreover, since politics is a game of power and power being the deciding factor in moulding relations in society, women’s role in politics and their participation is vital not only to seek solution to their problems, but also to their position in, and contribution to, society. In the recent decades though there has been growing acceptance and recognition of women’s role in politics, a total change is yet to be noticed. In India, after the independence, despite various constitutional measures the participation and representation of women in the Parliament and State Legislatures is abysmally low. This low participation is worrisome as it is against the achievement of our democratic ideals. -
International Journal of Modern Agriculture, Volume 9, No.3, 2020 CHAPTER: ROLE of ALL INDIA UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT (AIUDF) IN
357 International Journal of Modern Agriculture, Volume 9, No.3, 2020 ISSN: 2305-7246 CHAPTER: ROLE OF ALL INDIA UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT (AIUDF) IN ASSAM. DR. Subhash Talukdar. SUBJECT TEACHER. [email protected] MOBILE : 7002164461. INTRODUCTION: Party system is the important factor in the working of representative form of Government. India is a democratic state. In the democratic state, political parties are said to be the life – blood of democracies. Modern democracies are indirect in character. They can function with the help of political parties. In the absence of political parties democracy cannot deliver the goods. Well organized political parties constitute the best form of democracy. India has the largest democracy in the world. It introduced universal adult franchise as the basis of voting right in the country. Now the voting age has been lowered down to 18. Most of the Indian voters are not politically matured and they do not have the political education in the proper sense. Political parties in India are classified by the Election Commission of India. It was classified for the allocation of symbol. The Election Commission of India classified parties into three main heads: National parties, State parties and registered (unrecognized) parties. The Regional Political Parties are playing a very significant role in Indian political system, particularly in the post Congress era and in coalition politics. As far as the national level politics is concerned, the regional political parties play a ‘king maker’ role. Whereas, the politics at state level is concerned, the regional political parties have been playing an effective role for working of government machinery. -
TERRITORIES of BELONGING Citizenship and Everyday Practices of the State in Bodoland
TERRITORIES OF BELONGING Citizenship and everyday practices of the state in Bodoland Saba Sharma Department of Geography University of Cambridge This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Hughes Hall April 2019 Declaration This thesis is the result of my own work and includes nothing which is the outcome of work done in collaboration. It is not substantially the same as any that I have submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for a degree or diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution, except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. I further state that no substantial part of my dissertation has already been submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for any such degree, diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It does not exceed the prescribed word limit of 80,000 words of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Earth Sciences & Geography. 2 Thesis Summary My thesis looks at the construction of citizenship in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD, or Bodoland for short) in Western Assam, India. The BTAD is an autonomous sub- region within the state of Assam, which in turn is part of a cluster of states in Northeast India. I look primarily at the everyday practices of the state in an ethnically diverse region with a history of separatism, armed militant struggle, and violence between different ethnic groups. Two related strands of difference underlie the notion of citizenship here — the territorialised expression of ethnicity as manifested in the Indian context; and the idea of India’s Northeast as being a space of exception vis-à-vis the rest of the country. -
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Scanned by CamScanner Scanned by CamScanner Scanned by CamScanner Scanned by CamScanner Table of Contents Declaration Certificates Abstract……………………………………………………………………………i-ii Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………… iii List of Tables…………………………………………………………………… iv List of Figures……………………………………………………………………v Abbreviations…………………………………………………………………… vi Chapter 1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………1-13 Introduction Statement of the Problem Review of Literature Theoretical Framework Rationale and Scope of the Study Objectives of the Study Research Questions Methodology Organisation of the Study Chapter 2 Political Representation of Women: An Overview………………………14-43 Introduction Political Representation: Meaning, Definition, and Concept Different Types of Representation Women’s Representation in Electoral Politics International Initiatives on Women’s Political Representation Politics and Women in India Status of Women in Indian Society- Pre-Independence/ Post-Independence Women in the Colonial Period of India and Reform movements Women and the Nationalist Movement Women in Post Independent India Representation of Women in the Lok Sabha Representation of Women Members in Rajya Sabha Women Representation in the Council of Ministers Women Representatives in State Assemblies Women’s Representation and Political Parties Debate on Women’s Reservation Conclusion Chapter 3 Representation and Gender Equality in Electoral Politics of Assam…...44-63 Introduction Status of Women before Independence in Assam Women of Assam in Freedom Struggle Movement Political -
The Bodoland Agitation and Ethnic Violence in Assam
Volume - 5, Issue- 12, December 2017 IC Value 2016 : 61.33 e-ISSN : 2347 - 9671| p- ISSN : 2349 - 0187 EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review SJIF Impact Factor(2017) : 7.144 ISI Impact Factor (2013): 1.259(Dubai) Research Paper THE BODOLAND AGITATION AND ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN ASSAM 1 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Jangipur College, Dr. Koyel Basu Jangipur, Murshidabad-742213, West Bengal, India ABSTRACT ssam is a unique case. Its violence has been mostly ethnic, more a function of the complex ties Abetween state interests and demographic patterns. Assamese sub-nationalism started as a linguistic movement where reduced cultural heterogeneity has sharply heightened tensions between the Assamese and other communities. The cultural complexity here demanded a different type of governance. Secessionist movements occurred here and through the 1970s and 1980s massive acts of violence that included massacres/harassment of ‘outsiders’ blockading of oil pipes and damage to state property became part of the movement. The violence of the ULFA and the Bodo militants have also been rampant and violated political and human rights of people with impunity. Assam has witnessed massive sub-national and ethnic violence since the 1980s and it is one of the starkest cases of democracy and human rights violation proceeding hand in hand. However, what needs to be asserted is that the state cannot be wholly blamed or made responsible for the situation of human rights violations in all these regions. Human rights are the bedrock on which a civil and democratic society rests. The Indian Constitution acknowledges this. Federalism and the highly segmented character of Indian society enabled the Centre to function when some states were in political turmoil. -
Tribal Politics in Assam: from Line System to Language Problem
Social Change and Development Vol. XVI No.1, 2019 Tribal Politics in Assam: From line system to language problem Juri Baruah* Abstract Colonial geography of Northeast India reveals the fragmentation of the hills and plains and how it shaped the tribal politics in the region. Assam is a unique space to study the struggle of tribal against the mainstream political confront as it is the last frontier of the subcontinent with a distinctiveness of ethnic mosaic. The tribal politics in the state became organised through the self determination of tribal middle class in terms of indignity. The question on indignity is based on land and language which are the strong determinants in the political climate of Assam. This paper tries to argue on the significance of the line system and how it was initially used to create the space for organised tribal politics in terms of land rights. From line system to landlessness the tribal politics is going through different phases of challenges and possibilities by including the demands for autonomy and idea of homeland. The Ethnic identity is indeed directly linked with the region’s unique linguistic nature that becomes fragile in terms of identity questions. 1. Introduction The discourse of ‘tribal politics’ was first used by the colonial rulers in Assam which carries various socio-political backgrounds in the history of Northeast in general and Assam in particular. It became a question of identity in the late colonial Assam originating from the meaning of ‘tribe’ to the representation of ‘indigenous people’. The tribal politics began to challenge the hegemony of caste Hindus in the beginning and then transformed to tribal autonomy in the post-colonial period. -
Regional Aspirations in North East India: the Experience of Assam
Volume : 4 | Issue : 10 | October 2015 ISSN - 2250-1991 Research Paper Management Regional Aspirations in North East India: the Experience of Assam Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Margherita Bijoy Gogoi College, Margherita Assam Anjan Kumar Assistant Professor Department of Management Margherita Col- Bordoloi lege, Margherita Assam Regionalism, as a political ideology is gaining ground in India. If we go back to history, we will find that, after the regional movements in the South and in Punjab, the movement in Assam can be counted as one of the oldest regional movements in the country. The paradigm shift that the regional movements have brought about is to change the mindset of the people so as to facilitate a localized, pin-pointed outlook to political problem-solving. At this juncture, when most states have felt the need for regional parties to raise their respective problems, Assam has reduced the regionalists into almost non-entities, with less than one-twelfth of the total seats in the legislature. AGP is now the fourth largest party, after the Congress, AIUDF and the BPF. The Assam Movement was instrumental in bringing about a surge of regional ambitions in the eyes of the common man. That it instilled in an ordinary man ability to dream about regional prosperity is the biggest contribution of the movement. The inability to follow up the dreams that were created, and a failure of the political class who were entrusted to convert those dreams and idealism into reality has really dashed hopes and lofty dreams. The society in Assam ABSTRACT seems to settle down, and seems content for much lesser. -
1 Socio-Economic and Political Consequences Of
SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF BANGLADESHI IMMIGRATION IN INDIA Utpal Saikia (Paper is in the process of completion) Introduction: Human groups have a tendency to move towards and settle in the areas of plenty from the areas of scarcity due to economic factors. However, when socio-political aspects are involved, such movements are really of serious consequences. The ever-changing demographic and ethnic composition of people influenced the political and economic set up even before partition of India. Consequences of Bangladeshi immigration in Assam can be viewed in different ways but it cannot be separate from each other. First the tremendous occupation of land by immigrants, second the conflict between indigenous tribal and immigrants due to illegal occupation of land, third the crisis of identity of indigenous population and the fourth is the most important and the recent one, the movement against foreigners. The later one is the most important factors in Assam for its social disruptions and political instabilities and also important from the point of view of different act and law related to immigration and citizenship and electoral roll in the state. Occupation of Land: Sir Henry Cotton, Chief commissioner of Assam at the end of nineteenth century found four-fifth of cultivable waste lands untouched by plough. He wanted to cover these lands with food crops. Since, only three percent of the state’s population belonged to the working class (Census, 1891-1901) he felt to increase labour supply from the neighbouring areas of the state. The hope of Sir Henry was fulfilled with the completion of Assam-Bengal and Eastern-Bengal (Present Bangladesh) Rail Projects which accelerated inflow of migrants from Bengal. -
Faith-Based Citizenship
TIF - Faith-based Citizenship NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL November 1, 2019 December 11, 1946 meeting of the Constituent Assembly: The Assembly witnessed heated debates on citizenship. | Wikimedia The Citizenship Amendment Bill and the pan-Indian National Register of Citizens mark a foundational shift in the Indian conception of citizenship, providing paths to citizenship for some and driving others on to paths to statelessness. The Indian idea of citizenship – as embodied in the Constitution and the law – is in the throes of a profound and radical metamorphosis. The twin instruments of this transformation are the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). If the former is carving out paths to statelessness for disfavoured groups, the latter is creating paths to citizenship for preferred groups. While the first is, despite the looming threat of its extension across India, presently limited to the state of Assam, the second is designed to be pan- Indian in its application. Not only do the two need to be read alongside each other, both of these in turn need to be read in the larger context of the Government’s policies towards minorities, whether in the forced ‘amelioration’ of Muslim women by the criminalisation of the triple talaq or the clampdown, since early August, in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. They need also to be read in the context of the acceleration of violence against minorities over the past few years, especially by vigilante lynch mobs who have been thriving on the promise of legal impunity. An adequate understanding of both the NRC and the CAB depends on an appreciation of the ecosystem for minorities constituted by these twin phenomena, emanating from the state and society respectively. -
“Crisis of Political Leadership in Assam”
“Crisis of Political Leadership in Assam” A Dissertation submitted to Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth for the Degree of Master of Philosophy Degree in Political Science Submitted By Ms.Yesminara Hussain Under the guidance of Dr. Manik Sonawane Head, Dept. of Political Science. Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune. March - 2015 i ACKNOWLEDGMENT I take this opportunity, to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to all those who have helped me in completing my dissertation work for M.Phil. Degree. Words seem to be insufficient to express my deep gratitude to my teacher, supervisor, philosopher, and mentor and guide Dr. Manik Sonawane, Head- Department of Political Science, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Pune for his patient guidance, co-operation and invaluable suggestions during this work. He was kind to extend all possible help to me. He has been a limitless source of inspiration to me in my endeavor to explore this area of study. I am extremely grateful to him for all the toil and trouble he had taken for me. I record my deep sense of gratitude to Dr. Karlekar, Dean, Moral and Social Sciences, and Dr. Manik Sonawane, Head, Department of Political Science, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune. I owe deep sense of gratitude to my father Mr.Mobarak Hussain and mother AleyaKhatun and friends for their encouragement right from the commencement to the completion of my work. Date: 16th Feb.2015 YesminaraHussian Place: Pune Researcher ii DECLARATION I, Yesminara Hussain, hereby declare that the references and literature that are used in my dissertation entitled, “Crisis of Political Leadership in Assam”are from original sources and are acknowledged at appropriate places in the dissertation. -
Introduction
Introduction On 4th April, 1980 the National Executive of the Janata Party adopted a resolution prohibiting members of RSS to continue in the Janata Party. This resolution was sequel to the fears entertained by Chandrashekhar’s Group and a few Socialists who had not left the Janata Party when the split caused by Ch. Charan Singh took place and others that the erstwhile Jana Sangh would capture the party on account its mass base and large army of dedicated workers. This development was anticipated by leaders and workers of the Jana Sangh and RSS background in Janata Party. So they had asked Jana Sangh workers from all over the country to assemble at Delhi before the meeting of the National Executive of Janata Party and to be prepared for all eventualities. The resolution adopted by the National Executive of Janata Party was not acceptable to erstwhile Jana Sangh constituent and to several other leaders and persons in Janata Party who had no RSS background. The Jana Sangh constituent had sincerely worked towards the strengthening and smooth working of the Janata Party. Even though it constituted the largest single constituent of the Janata Party and had a larger popular base in the country it did not ask for proportionate share either in Janata Government or in Janata Party and was content with whatever was given to it. The Jana Sangh constituent wanted Janata Party to succeed and emerge as an alternative to Congress which had ruled the country for three decades prior to 1977. In this background, there was a feeling of regret and unhappiness as well as of good riddance and relief in the Jana Sangh 2 • Party Document Vol-10 workers. -
Demographic Changes and Ethnic Identity Crisis in Assam : an Analysis
International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology Vol. 29, No. 3, (2020), pp. 15445 - 15450 Demographic Changes and Ethnic Identity Crisis in Assam : An Analysis Hemanta Mudoi, Subject Teacher, Laluk H.S. School, Assam, India. Abstract: Assam is the native land for many races and communities and own a rich ethnic diversity. The ethnic diversity of the state represents a complex mosaic nature of the social set up with both tribal and non-tribal population. Immigration from different region to Assam has been transformed the demographic structure and it creates a gloomy situation in the region at one hand and on the other side ethnic communities are facing a crisis situation for which ethnic groups try to protect and promote their own unique identity and culture. In many spheres, the situation of crisis leads ethnic conflict amongst the different groups. For promoting a stable environment the Government of India, on many occasions, had conceived various strategies and structural adjustments to meet the aspirations of the competing ethnic communities in the state. The influx of immigration from East Bengal to Assam creates a severe demographic changes in Assam and it leads an ethnic conflict in many spheres. In this backdrop, the present paper tries to elaborate the pros and cons of demographic changes along with the ethnic identity crisis cum conflict. Keywords- Demographic, Ethnic, Conflict, Immigration, Crisis, Government, Identity. 1. Introduction: Assam represents one of the eight states in India’s Northeast Region. Like the rest of Northeast India, Assam has a rich ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity. The natural growth rates of Muslim population is higher than that of non Muslim population.