ABSTRACT
Some recent developments in the tribal politics of Assam deserve notice. The threat came in the wake of a massive rally organized by the Plains Tribal Council of Assam (PTCA) in Guwahati on 10 November 1988, as part of its own revived programme of agitation for the creation of ‘Udayachal’. Another all-embracing tribal students’ organization, All-Assam Tribal Students’ Union, has persisted with its own agitation for the ‘reorganization of Assam on a federal basis’ ensuring autonomy to each and every self-recognized ethnic, linguistic and religious group in the state. The PTCA, which first gave organized expression to this desire for separation from Assam, was born on 27 February 1967 at a time when the other tribal communities of the erstwhile Assam such as the Khasis, the Garos, the Jaintias, the Mizos and others were clamouring for separation.
