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Paper Title: The Struggle for identity and Existence: Reflections on Gorkhaland Movement.
Authors Name: BHUPEN GHIMIREY
Unique Id: IJSDR2302165
Published In: Volume 8 Issue 2, February-2023
Abstract: It is a fact that India is a multilingual and multiethnic country where most of the ethno lingual have lived continuously over the ages. Since independence, particularly after the States' Re-organization Act, 1956, some states of India were organized basically on linguistic consideration. In spite of this the reorganized units could not be made homogenous. Nowadays regionalism, ethnicity, sub-nationalism , identity and statehood movements are the growing trend of Indian politics. It’s been more than 100 years the longest statehood demand in India’s history, the one for Gorkhaland has reached its peak many times. Yet, it has always come tumbling down. Time and again, the unfulfilled aspirations of people have been doused by temporary promises and in 2017, the ‘Queen of Hills’, Darjeeling, was under siege as Gorkhas all around the world stood in unison against this incessant predicament of proving their identity as Indian citizens. In the simple terms, the demand for Gorkhaland state is an attempt on the part of people from Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars to do away with this “crisis of identity” that Gorkhas across India had and have to face and to assert our Indian Identity. The people of Ladakh wanting to become Indian for over 70-years, the people of Darjeeling absolutely understood what it meant.So they need their own distinct Indian identity, concrete and stable. In this long period of one century they have overcome great hurdles coming out victorious after every adversity. This is the dynamism that has kept this community moving ahead towards its goal. After one century, they are more able not only to read and write history but to make, to rebuild our history as well. In this backdrop, the question of identity has saddled itself firmly at the center stage of both academic and political debates. The crisis of identity as seen as a part of wider process of change which is dislocating the central structure of modern societies. It is in such an academic climate this paper will try to understand the emergence of Gorkhaland Movement as an ethnic and identity Movement in India spanning a period of over hundred years of continues crisis and arrived at a conclusion.
Keywords: Keywords: Darjeeling, identity , ethnicity , Gorkhaland , statehood.
Cite Article: "The Struggle for identity and Existence: Reflections on Gorkhaland Movement.", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijsdr.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.8, Issue 2, page no.970 - 973, February-2023, Available :http://www.ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR2302165.pdf
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Published In: Volume 8 Issue 2, February-2023
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