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Securitisation of Bangladeshi Migrants to Assam: An Analysis of India's Parliamentary Discussions
Jubaer, Md Sabbir Ahmed ; Schlotti, Jivanta (advisor) ; Aliyev, Huseyn (referee) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
Among the three major political bodies in Assam, the Assamese relied on the strong support of the Bengali Muslims in their struggle over control of Assam's politics, economy, and language after 1947. This alliance was broken in the 1970s and today Bengali Muslims, who originated from present day Bangladesh, are viewed as security threats who need to be addressed through extraordinary measures. Is calling Bangladeshi migrants security threats a culmination of a securitisation process? How did the process of securitisation take shape? Who were the actors and audience? Who needed protection? Using the sociological approach to securitisation as its theoretical framework, this study analyses the mechanism of securitising Bangladeshi migration to Assam starting between the 1970s and the 2010s. Employing the method of discourse analysis, the study analyses the relevant parliamentary debates during the time frame of 1971 to 2020, in India's Lok Sabha (Lower House of India's bicameral Parliament). The project categorises the debates into different decades to grasp how the portrayal of Bangladeshis changed over time and what the different key-words used, reveal about the process. The study finds out that the Bangladeshi migrants went through a securitisation process that ended up in legitimising...
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Growing tea in India
Malcová, Zuzana ; Bendíková, Soňa (advisor) ; Duda, Petr (referee)
The aim of this work is coherent description of the Indian tea industry. The work is focused on three main areas of tea production in India, namely the Assam, Darjeeling and Nilgiri. The main benefit is a coherent treatise on the topic of the tea industry in India with regard to many of its other aspects. The introductory part of the thesis talks about the first mentions of tea in India, including the history of the foundation of tea plantations in the Indian territory. The second part describes various aspects of tea industry: tea growing and tea-leaf collection, their manufacturing and sales, the manpower, trademarks and position of India in the international market with tea. The last thematic area which is devoted to the ways of consumption of tea in India and its specifics.
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