Tripuri Nationalism is an ideology that supports self-determination by the Tripuri people . The conflict is in essence ethnic and the Tripuri community, indigenous to the region formed the clear majority of population in the princely state of Tippera , which joined the Republic of India in 1949 as the state of Tripura .
4-522: Tripura National Volunteers (also Tribal National Volunteers or Tripura National Volunteer Force ) was a Tripuri nationalist militant group in the Tripura region of India that launched an armed struggle in the early 1980s to separate Tripura from India . TNV was led by Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl . Christians made up a large percent of the fighters and leaders of the TNV. The chairman, Bijoy Hrangkhawl,
8-738: The 1980s to 2000s. Since 1989, the armed rebellion was mostly led by the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force ATTF). The Bengali side retaliated by forming militias of their own, such as the United Bengali Liberation Tiger Front (UBLTF), which destroyed a number of Tripuri villages in 2000. The NLFT is classified by the National Memorial Institute for
12-576: Was a devout Christian. Tribesmen who were not Christian who joined the TNV were encouraged to convert to Christianity. TNV surrendered in 1988 and integrated themselves into a political party.However the few leadership of TNV did not take part in the Tripartite agreement in 1988 which lead to the outflow of NLFT in 1989 under the leadership of Dhananjoy Reang. In 2000, TNV renamed itself as Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra . In 2001, TNV merged with Indigenous People's Front of Tripura . The TNV
16-621: Was founded in 1978 with assistance from the Mizo National Front . It was initially called the Tribal National Volunteers. This article about an Indian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tripuri nationalism The issue has led to a number of armed uprisings and Insurgency in Tripura . There was a rebellion in 1950, and armed conflict continued to erupt in
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