An Extended Case of Reciprocity-in-Kind

Abstract

This chapter analyses how an ‘independent' nation-state changes its Indigenous people in demography and identity with the case of the Rakhain community of Bangladesh by settler colonies. Historically, the emergence of colonization correlates in many central colonizing states with the growth of liberalism, even after its colonial disappearance. Bangladesh has been ‘independent' for 50 years, yet the colonial mentality remains the same in the political and functional treatment of the Indigenous. Documented since the Mughal in 1715, Indigenous people of Hill tracts in Bangladesh have been under threat and subjugation of the state. This research design and/or framework informs the Indigenous research paradigm (IRP), focused on the biopower and “logic of elimination” of Patrick Wolfe and observational fieldwork with sharing circle.