The Assamese Sikhs: Negotiating Transitions

Heinrich Böll Stiftung in collaboration with Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research(C-NES) initiated a project titled “The Assamese Sikhs: Negotiating Transitions” which undertakes research on the identity of ‘Assamese/Asomiya Sikhs’-- who migrated from Punjab to Assam and Meghalaya over centuries. While they continue to identify as Sikhs, local traditions and cultures have led to the creation of a syncretistic, though fractured, Sikh identity. In tracing community roots, the project seeks to negotiate linkages between the past and present, between the Sikhs located at the two peripheries- the Northeast in Assam and Meghalaya (specifically in Shillong) and the Northwest in Punjab, and the issues they face.

Venue: Assam State Museum, GNB Road, Guwahati

Information:

Chok Tsering
Program Co-ordinator, Democracy & Dialogue Programme
E: chok.tsering@in.boell.org