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Arkotong Longkumer

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Arkotong Longkumer is an anthropologist who currently teaches at the University of Edinburgh. His work is based primarily in the northeast of India, focusing on indigenous peoples’ movements at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture. His new book The Greater India Experiment (Stanford, 2020) examines the Hindu right in the culturally rich and increasingly sensitive borderland spaces between India, China, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

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