ABSTRACT
Beginning with a reference to why any settlement of the homeland question in a historically fluid and liminal region like North Bengal is a chimera, this chapter, with the help of dense ethnographies, shows how the nomadic or what Heidegger calls the ‘unhomely’ turns into a lived experience and becomes the new metaphor of emancipatory politics for the region. It makes a reference to the region’s wildlife and particularly the elephants that have a claim to the same space as their habitat or ‘corridor’ along with many other groups and communities.
