In Pursuit of ‘Constitutional Solution’: Resuscitating the Demand of Separate Statehood Movement in India’s Northeast, Tripura

Abstract

The rise of identity movement marks the begging of identity politics among the indigenous Tiprasa people in the late 1960s. In recent times, identity movements resurfaced again in the form of separate homeland exclusively for the tribals. This movement popularly known as Greater Tipraland Movement(GTM) emerge as a response to poly-crisis that have been unaddressed by the state agency over the years which ascended as a necessity for existential struggle among the indigenous Tiprasa peoples. Nevertheless, following the emergence of these separate statehood movements, it has been criticized as too unrealistic, and fragile demand. Through empirical research and available literature, the objective of this article endeavours to examine the resurgence of identity movement in the contemporary Tripura. It argues that unless and until existential crisis centered on land, language and identity are solved, movement like GTM are imminent.