• Jaison Varghese
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad Athparia

The survival strategy of the stateless people across the world has various similarities as they have a common factor: the struggle for socio-cultural existence. There are stateless people in India’s Northeast region, who are deprived of nationality and in the ongoing process of getting assimilated and adopted in the new geography and they face enormous obstacles to continue their own living pattern and livelihood. The paper illustrates the social survival indicators, which are conceptualized with socio-economic variables such as livelihood, landholding and family level food security that contribute to the continued existence of Chakma settlers, the victim of development-induced displacement who had been brought to Northeast India from Bangladesh. The study focuses on the 12 settlement villages in Arunachal Pradesh state and covered 360 Chakma families. By practicing new plough mode of cultivation, they themselves adapted to the new situations and produce food crops for their daily consumption and also sell to the local markets. The landless and the households who do not have sufficient land for agriculture engage in share cropping with other Chakma families and local Arunachali tribal groups. The study may guide the policy makers and development workers to understand the process of social survival attributes of the stateless across the world.

Social survival, Stateless people, Northeast India, Livelihood, Food security, Share cropping

"LIVELIHOOD, LAND AND FOOD SECURITY AS SOCIAL SURVIVAL ATTRIBUTES: A CASE OF CHAKMA SETTLERS IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH, NORTH EAST INDIA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.23-32, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904F05.pdf

"LIVELIHOOD, LAND AND FOOD SECURITY AS SOCIAL SURVIVAL ATTRIBUTES: A CASE OF CHAKMA SETTLERS IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH, NORTH EAST INDIA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp23-32, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904F05.pdf