Essay
Refugees Within, Refugees Without
The Chahma are too small to be so fragmented and scattered, but there is little incentive for anyone to try and redress their condition.
On 15 August 1947, the Indian tricolour went up a flagpost in Rangamati, the main town in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The Chakma leaders had believed during the tortuous negotiations leading up to Partition that, given the religious composition of the largely Buddhist CHT, their district would be parcelled out to India.