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Coupland plan and Second World War: A root of extremism in North East India
Author Name :
TARUN DUTTA
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
GRT-1894
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Abstract :
“A direct British ruled crown colony would be formed with the Kachin of Northwestern Burma and India's Northeastern hills areas and the planning is on process.” An announcement was declared in a school meeting at Shillong in 13th November, 1941 by Robert Nail Rides, Governor of Assam. According to the plane the British colonial powers want to be form a territory of tribal peoples and want to role them directly. Their vision was to make separate the tribal peoples from the freedom struggle of India and kept them with their side. They seeded the concept of separate territorial idea of tribal people, which were reflected post independence period in India.
Keywords :
  • Northeast India,
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