DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i12.005

Pages: 632-638

The Northeast India has been passing through a serious ethnic conflict and turmoil ever since the independence of the country. The ethnic assertion of different groups are the manifestation of the urges and aspirations of these ethnic communities against exclusion and for their all round development. These assertions may be understood as a form of elite conflict. In fact, ethnic assertion is not something which is irrational and impulsive but it is a cover through which the elites compete and struggle for power. This paper is an attempt to deal with the questions such as how the elites of different communities mobilise the people of their respective communities? What strategies do they adopt to push through their objectives? What kind of exclusion motivates the elites of the ethnic communities to organise their respective communities? It is found in the study that the existing exclusion and conflict among the diverse communities of northeast India may be removed to some extent by mobilisation of the masses of all sections of people far beyond the interest of dominant Assamese elite and the elite of the ethnic communities as well as to end exploitation of the Indian State.