LOCAL POLITICS AND PROPERTY DYNAMICS IN THE CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS, BANGLADESH

Access to resources is vital to peoples livelihoods in the rural and peri-urban areas in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Through legal and institutional pluralism and various political practices, people put forth their resource claims recognized as rights. This writing analyzes how the public authority and the local State are formed through debates and struggles over the property in the Chittagong of Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh.