Paper short abstract:

The Moran is an ethnic community of Assam, India. This Community is putting all efforts to restore its tribal way of life.Here, the authors have tried to focus on the issue of Morans identity from various perspectives.

Paper long abstract:

Survival has been the key objective of all human groups since time immemorial. Uncongenial environment, natural calamities and diseases have been the most common adversaries of mankind throughout ages. In addition to these, while fighting to keep one's kind alive, what a human group needed to do was to get hold of the resources and in doing so, had to make other such group/s with similar aspirations submissive to its will.

In India, struggle for survival of a marginalized ethnic community in a multi-cultural setting with influential caste population can be very easily observed through their social, cultural, religious, political, and economic standing. The Moran community is one such ethnic group of the State of Assam which is for a long time has been living with the disturbing fact that even after so many years of India's independence, their plight has stayed on. Their recognition as a scheduled tribe (plains) of Assam still seems a distant dream.

Opinion of the Morans suggests that relative socio-economic backwardness and with regard to their need of having some constitutional facilities are the driving forces behind their sustained effort to assert their unique existence,

In this paper, a modest attempt has been made to understand the continuous struggle of the Morans to assert their identity as a tribal community of the State of Assam.

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