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Khasi Students' Union
AbbreviationKSU
Formation20 March 1978; 47 years ago (1978-03-20)[1]
TypeStudent organization
HeadquartersShillong[1]
Region served
Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram[1]
President
Lambok S. Marngar[2]
Vice President
Biangbor L. Paliar[2]
General Secretary
Donald V. Thabah[2]
Websitehttps://khasistudentsunion.com

The Khasi Students Union[a] (KSU) is a political organisation in Meghalaya, India.

History/Activities

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The Khasi Students Union was formed in 1978.[3] It was modeled after the All Assam Students Union.[4] Along with the Garo Students Union, the KSU in 1979 led an agitation, involving picketing, courting of arrest, and satyagraha, demanding that the names of foreigners be deleted from Meghalaya's voters lists.[5]

The KSU led an anti-foreigner agitation targeting Nepalis[6] that resulted in the expulsion of about 5,000[7] to 10,000 Nepalis from Meghalaya from 1986 to 1987.[8] By December 1987, over 4,000 Nepalis were staying in relief camps. The KSU demanded that the camps be closed since their "unhygienic conditions" could be harmful to the health of those not in them and also that the refugees be moved to Barapani from Shillong.[9] The Union initially raised nine demands to the government: expel "foreigners" from Meghalaya, implement inner line regulations in the state, reserve all 60 state assembly seats and 95% of government jobs for tribals, create employment opportunities, delete names of foreigners from electoral rolls, withdraw criminal cases registered against agitationists, institute a judicial inquiry into the police firing in June, and remove the Central Reserve Police Force from Meghalaya.[9]

The organisation prohibited girls from wearing Salwar Kameezes during the 1980s and 1990s,[10] so that Khasi culture would be upheld by women's clothing.[11]

The KSU, in 1996, filed a public interest litigation in the Guwahati High Court that proposed a ten-year ban on the trade of timber and the closure of saw and veneer mills to protect Meghalaya's forest.[12]

In 2014, the KSU demanded the renaming of the Ri-Bhoi district to the "North Khasi hills", claiming that the term 'Bhoi' is derogatory.[13]

Views

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One of the major demands of the KSU is the implementation of Inner Line regulations in Meghalaya.[14]

The KSU opposes the mining of uranium in the state.[2][15][16]

While Khasi society is traditionally matrilineal, the KSU has advocated for the abolition of matriliny and its replacement with patriliny in Khasi society.[17] The Union believes that the child born of a Khasi father and non-Khasi mother is a Khasi, but a child of the inverse is not.[18]

The KSU holds that the Marngar people should not be recognised as Khasi.[19]

Notes

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  1. ^ For examples of this spelling of the organization's name, see Karlsson (2011), p. 313, Dutta (2023), and Ramirez (2014). Also spelled "Khasi Students' Union", see for example Karlsson (2011), p. 14, Sahoo (2023), and Mukhim (2013).

References

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  1. ^ a b c About KSU.
  2. ^ a b c d Our History.
  3. ^ Menon & Nigam 2013, p. 149.
  4. ^ Sitlhou 2022, p. 31.
  5. ^ EP&W 1979, p. 1983.
  6. ^ EP&W 1988, p. 279.
  7. ^ Ghosh 2009, p. 10.
  8. ^ Sahoo 2023.
  9. ^ a b Ramaseshan 1987.
  10. ^ Mukhim 2013.
  11. ^ Dutta 2023, p. 122.
  12. ^ Karlsson 2011, p. 89.
  13. ^ Ramirez 2014, p. 55.
  14. ^ EP&W 1987, p. 1571.
  15. ^ Sirnate 2009, p. 18.
  16. ^ Karlsson 2011, p. 187.
  17. ^ John 2008, p. 487.
  18. ^ John 2008, p. 488.
  19. ^ Ramirez 2014, p. 58.

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Karna, Mahendra Narain, ed. (1998). Social Movements in North-East India. Indus Publishing. ISBN 9788173870835.
  • John, Mary E. (2008). Women’s Studies in India: A Reader. New Delhi: Penguin.
  • Karlsson, Bengt G. (2011). Unruly Hills: A Political Ecology of India's Northeast. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9780857451057.
  • Menon, Nivedita; Nigam, Aditya (4 July 2013) [2007]. Power and Contestation: India Since 1989. Zed Books.
  • Ramirez, Philippe (2014). People of the Margins: Across Ethnic Boundaries in North-East India. Guwahati/Delhi: Spectrum Publications. ISBN 9788183440639.
  • Dutta, Bitopi (25 September 2023). Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions. Routledge. ISBN 9780367711283.
  • Sahoo, Ajaya K., ed. (7 December 2023). Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations. Routledge.

Journal and magazine articles

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  • "The 'Foreigner' Question". Economic and Political Weekly. 14 (49). Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust: 1983. 8 December 1979. JSTOR 4368193.
  • "Putting Pressure on Centre". Economic and Political Weekly. 22 (38). Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust: 1570–1571. 19 September 1987. JSTOR 4377492.
  • "Ugly Elections". Economic and Political Weekly. 23 (7). Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust: 279. 13 February 1988. JSTOR 4378083.
  • Kumar, N. and Nongkynrih, A.K. (1995), ‘Khasi Students Union – A Preliminary Enquiry’, in A.C. Sinha (ed), Youth Movements in North East India, New Delhi: Har Anand Publications: 193-207.
  • Ghosh, Anjan (6 June 2009). "Gorkhaland Redux". Economic and Political Weekly. 44 (23). Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust: 10–13. JSTOR 40279076.
  • Sirnate, Vasundhara (21 November 2009). "Students versus the State: The Politics of Uranium Mining in Meghalaya". Economic and Political Weekly. 44 (47). Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust: 18–23. JSTOR 25663806.

Newspaper and magazine articles

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Primary sources

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