
Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Politics of Assamah
I want to shift the frame of reference slightly for example right now we have this default frame of reference that we belong to India and when we look back on what our freedom fighters did in the 1910s or 20s it seems very virtuous. But if you shift the frames upwards through the British Empire as such they looked at those acts as seditious for them Bhagat Singh is not a freedom fighter but a terrorist similarly let's shift the frame from the Indian point of view to perhaps the Assamis point of view. For them it is all of these people coming into their land and intermingling and and the questions that you have to ask is who are the people you know you have
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