Mizoram

In Mizoram, a refugee crisis highlights Mizo tribal affinities and hostility

Shared Zo identity has Mizos extending hospitality to Chin and Kuki-Chin refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. More remarkable is that Chakmas, mistreated by the Mizo majority in Mizoram, have welcomed Kuki-Chin refugees too

| Jun 02, 2023

The NRC’s spillover effect

Neighbouring states in the Northeast follow in the footsteps of Assam.

State of exclusion

The Chakmas in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh continue to be victims of ethnic conflict.

The fall of kohhran swarkar in Mizoram

What the repeal of prohibition means for current power dynamics and good governance.

| Aug 26, 2014

BIMSTEC, Myanmar and India’s Northeast

BIMSTEC provides an opportunity for India to deliver development and peace to its Northeastern region. This must be seized.

| Jul 24, 2014

The Gorkhalis of Mizoram

A small community of Gorkhalis fights for rights and recognition in ethnocentric Mizoram.

| Aug 08, 2012

Uprooted in the Northeast

The imbalance of rights, ethnic claims and histories of dispossession.

| Mar 01, 2003

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