• Mompi Saikia

Abstract: Conflicts can be of various types. Its ranges are very wide including cultural conflict, ethnic conflict, conflict of interest, organizational conflict, workplace conflict etc. Out of these ethnic conflicts are of prime interest to the researchers. After the two world wars more people have been killed in these fights for ethnicity. The term 'Ethnicity' as used today arose in the mid-20th century replacing the terminology of 'races' or 'nations' used for the e concept in the 19th century. Regular warfare was formerly conceived as conflicts between nations, and only with the rise of multi ethnic societies did the concept of "ethnic conflict" arise as separate from generic wars. The North East India, more especially the state of Assam has become a 'melting point' of different cultural groups since antiquity and has given rise to composite culture which we know today as "Assamese Culture". Though there is the process of assimilation of different ethnic groups in the region yet another force is operating upon the same ethnic groups to maintain their distinctive forms. In the recent years the second force is gradually gaining its momentum and different ethnic groups once merged to form a united force are trying to re-establish their original identity even by being hostile to other groups. In this paper the writer intends to explore the nature of the ethnic conflicts in NE India particularly Assam. Keywords: Causes, Conflicts, Ethnicity, Ethnic Movements

Keywords: Causes, Conflicts, Ethnicity, Ethnic Movements

"ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN ASSAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 6, page no.869-872, June-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1706150.pdf

"ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN ASSAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 6, page no. pp869-872, June-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1706150.pdf