Debate: Professor Hiren Gohain, Let’s Talk About Assam Again

There is an oversight in the response of professor Hiren Gohain in attending to our predicament in contemporary Northeast, particularly with regard to the ideas around citizenship.
Oversight or overmining is an intellectual fallacy which gives more agencies to something, here colonialism and its ramification to the problematic idea of citizenship today in the Northeast, than it is capable of.
In using colonial history and holding it solely responsible for the current contradictions and social tension, he is not only guilty of oversight, but also undermining or ignoring more important agents and agendas that makes the social, political and cultural landscape of Assam possible. He undermines a section of the colonial subjects’s role in the post-colonial period.

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