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The Indigenous Peoples of Bangladesh: In Quest of State Recognition

Borendra Lal Tripura Lecturer, AIUB ADS & ALA Scholar 1. Prelude Since the declaration of World Indigenous Decade by United Nations in 1993, the ethnic minority peoples of Bangladesh have been appealing to the government of Bangladesh and the majority Bengali community to recognize their identity as indigenous people. Though the progressive section of the majority Bengali community has positively responded to the appeal, the majority conservative section of the society is still hesitating to recognize it. In some cases, this section is rather fiercely opposing to the appeal of the disadvantaged ethnic minority peoples, which is evident from the reactions of some writers and actors such as Mohammed Zainal Abedin (2006), Mohammad Humayun Kabir (2006) and the television interviews of some government ministers in different times. They have used many irrational logics and information to reject the struggle and appeal of the minority peoples. Thus they have demonstrated their failure to

Wellcome

Hi Suchi, Thank you and wellcome for joining the blog. You are now an author of the blog. So, you can post anything in the blog, but I request to post things relevant to CHT only to keep the objectives and essence of the blog in the right track. To do this, you need to create a gmail account. So get a gmail account first and enjoin the previlege of posting. Let's make the blog a rich online library on CHT issues. Cheers..................................Borendra

KOK-BOROK, A SHORT ANALYSIS

15/05/2007 14:56 KOK-BOROK, A SHORT ANALYSIS Dr. Francois Jacquesson This is not a technical paper and all readers are welcome, although most serious matters are discussed!Some parts are more linguistic, and some others ( 1,2, 11, 16, 18, 20, 22 tell of the language more generally.This short description results from the generous help many people gave me during my stay in Agartala(March the 27 th to April the 5 th 2002 ). I must confess I had never met before so many people anxious to help a linguist, and doing it so efficiently. Many of these people were linked with the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council and the Khumulwng institutions, which I also visited, and several also worked within the Kokborok Tei hukumu Mission . I cannot cite all of them,but let me give the names of kandai Utpal Debbarma ( who kindly managed to prepare my stay in Agartala ), Twimuk Prasenfit Debbarma, Bijesh Debbarma, koloy Debbarma, Nanda kumar Debbarma, and of course Bikash Roy Debbarma and