Non-violent Resistance among the Toungsa Pahari of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

Muhammad Ala Uddin

South Asian Survey, 2012, vol. 19, issue 1, 133-147

Abstract: This article attempts an insight into the power of the powerless people which they employ for their survival where their lifeways have been threatened by the dominant cultures. Based on several ethnographic studies, it shows that the powerless people who do not take arms against the dominant cultures employ cultural resistance. In light of this view, the article focuses on the ethnographic work of the author, where the Toungsa Pahari, powerless indigenous people, employ several strategies for their survival. Juxtaposed with reluctant disposition, they employ cultural resistance in order to survive in the hard environment of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, endangered by the outsiders (Bangali settlers).

Keywords: Power; powerless; cultural resistance; reluctant disposition; Toungsa Pahari; Chittagong Hill Tracts; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/0971523114539587

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