Land and Gender Relation, Migration and Tribal Land Alienation: A study of Karbi Anglong (1951?1979)

The paper in an attempt to study the relation of tribal community with land in the Karbi Anglong District of Assam. It also makes an attempt to study the cultural claim on land and importance of gender relation to man-land relationship. Despite the fact that gender and land has a strong bond in the tribal “Socio-economic sphere” in terms of inheritance and gendered division of labor, it got affected by large-scale migration in the district not only from the most populous districts of India and other places but also from beyond the international border. The paper further studies, how migration in the district led to large-scale land alienation and changing socio-economic scenario.