01956nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003200060245008200092260002800174300003200202520134600234650007601580773002801656942000701684952010701691  c528923d528923250203b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWijunamai, Roderick 950499  a Reconfiguring the tribe: Changing ethnic affiliations in India’s Northeast  aSociological Bulletin    a73(4), Oct, 2024: p.494-506  aThis essay sees the form and functioning of the Zeliangrong Naga community as a work in progress. Rather than a perennial, historically immutable and delimited entity, the (relatively recent) formation of the Zeliangrong community indicates that tribes can be formed afresh and that tribal identities are constantly in flux. I begin by tracing and placing the origins of the Zeliangrong Naga as told by Zeliangrong elders and circulating origin and migration stories. Then, continuing my focus on ethnic alignment and realignment, I studied the Zeliangrong movement that emerged in the 1920s. At first, they advocated a Naga Raj through the ousting of the colonial government. Over time, however, this rebellion changed direction and reduced its ambitions to the creation of a Zeliangrong homeland that would unite the Zeliangrong people who currently inhabit three different states of Northeast India, namely Manipur, Nagaland and Assam. Drawing both on historical analysis and fresh ethnography this essay shows how over time the Zeliangrong ethnic identity has come under strain and is increasingly internally contested with its constituent parts now expressing divergent political aspirations while also struggling over status, standing and dominance within.- Reproduced 

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  aZeliangrong Naga, tribe, Ethnicity, Identity, Northeast, India. 950500  aSociological Bulletin    cAR  00102ddc40709404017aIIPAbIIPAd2025-02-03h73(4), Oct, 2024: p.494-506pAR135118r2025-02-03yAR