Living on the margin: The positioning of the 'Khumi' within the sociopolitical and ethnic history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Asian Ethnicity

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-53

  Uddin, Nasir ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Colonial policy; Ethnic history; Marginality; Pahari; Post colonial state

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749137669     PISSN: 14631369     EISSN: 14692953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631360701803211     Document Type: Article

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