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The Politics of the Roman Script Demand in Tripura

Vol. 58, Issue No. 44, 04 Nov, 2023
V Bijukumar

The current spurt of protests by tribal organisations for recognising the Roman script in Tripura is motivated by political churning. While the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state is pushing Devanagari script for the Kokborok with political motives, the Tipra Motha Party’s opposition emerged out of its compulsions.

Dissecting the Verdict of Tripura Assembly Election 2023

Vol. 58, Issue No. 15, 15 Apr, 2023
V Bijukumar

The verdict of the Tripura assembly election 2023 gave a renewed mandate for the Bharatiya Janata Party government with a thin majority. Though the resurgent Communist Party of India (Marxist)–Congress alliance put up a fierce fight against the ruling party, the emergence of the Tipra Motha Party as a third political force, championing the tribal demand for the protection of indigenous identity, dashed the electoral fortunes of the opposition.

Sustainable Development Goals

Vol. 57, Issue No. 1, 01 Jan, 2022
Inder Jit Singh

The article notes that the north-eastern states have taken many initiatives to implement and localise the Sustainable Development Goals. But achieving the targets require a multipronged approach, concerted and coordinated efforts, and focus on sectors where the region has inherent advantages. Unfortunately, the pandemic has cast some doubts on the feasibility of achieving the goals as per the original timelines.

 

Regional Variations in Multidimensional Poverty

Vol. 56, Issue No. 48, 27 Nov, 2021
Salim Shah, Niranjan Debnath

Regional variations in multidimensional poverty and inequality are analysed for the two different administrative regions of Tripura—village committees under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council and gram panchayats under the panchayati raj institutions—using a primary survey. Special emphasis is laid on the deprivations of households with regard to health, education, and the standard of living across these two administrative regions as well as the rural development blocks. The level of multidimensional poverty and incidence appears to be higher in village committees than gram panchayats even though the average deprivation among the poor is around 40% for both the areas with robust between-group inequality.

COVID-19 and the Everyday Challenges of Indigenous Peoples of Tripura

Vol. 56, Issue No. 47, 20 Nov, 2021
Biswaranjan Tripura, Thomas Malsom

Although there were some responses from the government and community sociocultural organisations to deal with an unforeseen crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic, it brought enormous challenges in the everyday life of indigenous peoples of Tripura. In this article, the everyday challenges faced by the rural indigenous peoples of Tripura during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the immediate response by the government and community sociocultural organisations are unravelled.

 

Agrarian Transformation and Quality of Life in Highlands of Tripura

Vol. 56, Issue No. 10, 06 Mar, 2021
Ishita Mukhopadhyay

Socio-economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura: A Study of Agrarian Relations edited by Madhura Swaminathan and Ranjini Basu, Delhi: Tulika Books in association with Foundation for Agrarian Studies, 2019; pp xxiv+376, `600.

 

Nuances of the Left Debacle in Tripura

Vol. 54, Issue No. 42, 19 Oct, 2019
V Bijukumar

The electoral and political debacle of the left in Tripura is a culmination of long-term social churning. Discontent among the tribal population as well as the divide between tribal and Bengali communities were effectively utilised by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has led to precipitous erosion of the base of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

BJP’s Arrogance on Alert

Vol. 53, Issue No. 14, 07 Apr, 2018
Anand Teltumbde

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A ‘Reading’ without History: Questioning a Flawed Reading of Left Politics in Tripura

Vol. 53, Issue No. 7, 17 Feb, 2018
R K Debbarma’s reading of left politics in Tripura in the article “Where to Be Left Is No Longer Dissidence” (EPW, 27 May 2017) is ahistorical, inaccurate and one-sided. Two distinctive features of Tripura’s left-led political movement have been the safeguarding of the rights of the tribal people on the one hand, and maintaining democratic unity between the tribal and the non-tribal (Bengali) people on the other.

Objective Function in Economic Models of Decisions on Production

Vol. 37, Issue No. 34, 24 Aug, 2002
Malabika Das Gupta

Analysis of shifting cultivation in Tripura in the 19th century indicates that the 'full belly' type of models - where the objective is considered to be a fixed target level of consumption - approximated realistically with the cultivators' production motivation. However, in the present day, due to the demands of the consumerist culture and dwindling land available for shifting cultivation, swidden agriculture, even if engaged in full time, is not able to produce more than the minimum acceptable level of output.

Tripura : Shadow of Hope

Vol. 36, Issue No. 36, 08 Sep, 2001

The spread of ethnic insurgency in Tripura follows a trajectory similar to that in the two other north-eastern states, Assam and Meghalaya. The festering issue of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh who, facilitated by porous borders, have entered the region in ever increasing numbers since the 1980s, driving down the proportion of tribal population to just about 30 per cent and leading also to large-scale land alienation. In fact, Tripura’s first insurgent movement, the Tripura National Volunteers (TNV) took up arms on this very issue.

The Left after the Elections

Vol. 36, Issue No. 22, 02 Jun, 2001
Sumanta Banerjee

Now that the dust of the elections has settled, several questions need to be addressed by the Left, if it is to seriously think of chalking out its future. After its debacle in Kerala, will the Left now remain content with its electoral power confined to Tripura and West Bengal? In the rest of India, will it reconcile itself to the role of a minor ally of various regional and centrist parties? Shall we see more of spectacles like the CPI and the CPI(M) tying themselves to the apron strings of the likes of Laloo Yadav and Jayalalitha? Will they be seen on the same platform as the Shiv Sena and the RSS-led Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh in anti-WTO agitations, as witnessed recently in Maharashtra?

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