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Book Review: Odyssey Dima Hasao & Autonomous Council by Ramu Upadhaya

The writer Ramu Upadhaya hails from Assam, he has witnessed the making and working of Autonomous District Councils in Dima Hasao, earlier known as The North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC). Recently famous as Dima Hasao Autonomous Council, through this book the author educates people about this region and sheds light on how autonomous district councils (ADCs) work in collaboration and interaction with state and mini secretariat and other governing bodies.


The North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC), also known Dima Hasao Autonomous Council, is a self-governing district council in the state of Assam, India. It was constituted under the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India to administer the Dima Hasao district and to develop the hill people in the area. Its headquarters is in Haflong, Dima Hasao district.

Reading this book gradually powers up your understanding on mechanism of autonomous district councils. The author pinpoints at many places in the book that distribution of power plays the antagonism amidst outsiders, tribals, and non-tribals, which further puts obstacles in the overall growth of the region Dima Hasao.

In North East there are some ADCs for tribal population, in the areas where tribal population is around 70 to 80 percent. For such areas the central government of India under the Sixth Schedule powers up ADCs with legislative, judicial, administrative, and financial capacity to establish and enforce their own social and development priorities within the broader Indian constitutional framework.

This book takes an extensive stance on the internal working of autonomous council with regard to election, state legislation, revenue and other classifications. Each one demands unity of the people of Dima Hasao, if not turned well it could lead to political fiasco. The book sheds light on some important classifications that form the critical part of the ADCs body like General Council, Executive Council, and Village Council. Remember there are other state vigilant councils as well in North East in Tripura, Manipur, and Nagaland. Their functioning is different than of Dima Hasao.

The focus of the book lies in Dimasa, their people and identity. The book takes it one by one to justify their stance in a gamut of cultural, natural, and social activities. The author made sure that Dimasa and their spanning across various verticals of India is highlighted, not ignored. For this topic, he has proper stories from his life, kings and kingdoms, patriotic heroes and much more.

The expanse of the book is so vast and traversing that it makes up ultimately as a resourceful guide for people seeking information on Dima Hasao and its allied powers and conflicts within the scaffold of autonomous district councils. The narrative of the author is upgraded, deeply researched, and quite simple to understand the legacy of some particular regions of Assam and North East India.

The book is available to buy from Amazon India

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