This article, based on a study conducted in a tea plantation of Upper Assam, documents and analyses the struggle for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status by the Adivasis in Assam, which is linked to a larger demand for indigeneity and tribal recognition in the state and in the Northeast. It examines the nature of this struggle in recent times through both its contestations of indigeneity and claims upon citizenship by drawing on personal narratives and interviews with activists and workers of Adivasi students’ organisations and tea workers’ unions who have been in the forefront of this struggle.

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本土性的悖论

本文基于在上阿萨姆邦的茶园进行的一项研究，记录并分析了阿萨姆邦 Adivasis 为争取预定部落 (ST) 地位而进行的斗争，这与该州对土著和部落认可的更大需求有关。在东北。它通过个人叙述和对一直处于这场斗争前沿的 Adivasi 学生组织和茶叶工人工会的活动家和工人的采访，通过对原住民的争论和对公民身份的要求，审视了最近这场斗争的性质.