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100			_aWijunamai, Roderick _950499
245			_a Reconfiguring the tribe: Changing ethnic affiliations in India’s Northeast
260			_aSociological Bulletin
300			_a73(4), Oct, 2024: p.494-506
520			_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 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380229241287461
650			_aZeliangrong Naga, tribe, Ethnicity, Identity, Northeast, India. _950500
773			_aSociological Bulletin
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