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Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya
Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya is an independent researcher from Assam.
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India: The idea of wasteland and two media narratives of citizenship in Assam0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- October 5, 2020
by Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 October 2020 I want to make a few observations regarding two widely circulated media articles that invoke ‘wasteland’, a colonial category for land, in speaking about state-sponsored notions of citizenship in Assam, a frontier state in northeast India. The category ‘wasteland’—and its variants “dead,” “idle,” “vacant,” “fallow,” “unutilized” land—facilitated
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