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Tripuri Nationalism is an ideology that supports self-determination by the Tripuri people. [1] The conflict is in essence ethnic and the Tripuri community, indigenous to the region formed the clear majority of population in the princely state of Tippera, which joined the Republic of India in 1949 as the state of Tripura.
But recently in the last two decades a substantial amount of Kokborok literature has been in the Latin Script and Kokborok alphabet. In 2004 a statewide movement called Movement for Kokborok was launched by various organisations and societies in Tripura, prominently by Kokborok society of India, Kokborok tei Hukumu Mission and Twipra Students Federation demanding the inclusion of Kokborok at ...
Lok Sewak Sangh was formed during the Manbhum Bengali language movement to promote use of the Bengali language in Bengali-dominated areas in southern Bihar state. [82] They labelled the imposition of Hindi as 'linguistic imperialism'. [83] After breaking with the Indian National Congress, their elected officials resigned and were re-elected on ...
The Tripuri people (Kókborok: Tripuri dópha rok, (also known as Tripura, Tipra, Twipra, Tipperah) are a Tibeto-Burman-speaking ethnic group of Bangladesh and Northeast Indian state of Tripura. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] They are the descendants of the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh.
RAB told the media that 10 militants belonging to the Kuki Chin Nation Front had been arrested in the operation in the CHT. Ten guns, 50 rounds of bullets, 62 cases, six bombs, two cartridge belts, and a locally made pistol along with other equipment and jihadi literature were also seized during the operation, along with 1 militant killed. [37 ...
The other group of people in order of decreasing population were Chakma (6.5%), Halam (4.8%), Mog (3.1%), Munda, Kuki tribes and Garo Hajong. [1] Bengali is the most spoken language, due to the dominance of Bengali people in the state. Kokborok (Tripuri/Tiprakok) is a common language among Tripuris and lingua franca in Tripura. Several other ...
NLFT wanted to establish an independent Tripura and ATTF wanted to finalise the Tripura merger agreement. However, all of them wished to remove Bangladeshis immigrants who had entered Tripura after 1950 despite their ideological differences. Anti-Bengali sentiments of Tripuri rebel groups had given birth to the United Bengali Liberation Front.
[9] [10] [11] Consequently, the language has been taught in schools of Tripura from the primary level to the higher secondary stage since the 1980s. A certificate course in Kokborok started from 1994 at Tripura University [ 12 ] and a post graduate diploma in Kokborok was started in 2001 by the Tripura University.