num_pages: 316
description: This comprehensive study explores issues pertaining to the stateless status of the ethnic Buddhist Chakma refugees in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh who originally belonged to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs). What sets it apart is its holistic overview of the social history of the Chakmas from the colonial period onwards. While analyzing and emphasizing the current plight of the Chakmas in India as stateless refugees it raises the concomitant question of what it takes to qualify as citizens of a modern postcolonial state.
language: English
title: Stateless in South Asia: The Chakmas between Bangladesh and India
publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd