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== Beh Dkhar == | == Beh Dkhar == | ||
In 1979, as the anti-foreigner movement gained momentum in Assam, the ethnocentric Khasi organizations like the Khasi Students Union and the [[Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council]]<ref name="pariat2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.motherlandmagazine.com/insideoutsiders/|title=Inside/Outsiders|last=Pariat|first=Janice|date=8 November 2013|work=Motherland|publisher=Wieden+Kennedy|access-date=10 June 2018|location=New Delhi}}</ref> raised the slogan of ''Beh Dkhar'', literally meaning 'chase the Dkhars away',<ref name="lyngdoh2016">{{cite thesis |last=Lyngdoh |first=Margaret |date=28 March 2016 |title=Transformation, Tradition, and Lived Realities: Vernacular Belief Worlds of the Khasis of Northeastern India |type=PhD |publisher=University of Tartu |oclc=614785252 |url=https://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/51059 |access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> directed against the non tribals migrants of the state. Martin Narayan Majaw, the mercurial leader of another ethnocentric Khasi group called Demands Implementation Committee stated clearly, "We don't like outsiders to stay here. We tell them, come here, appreciate the blue sky and the green hills, and then go away."<ref name="it15121979"/> | In 1979, as the anti-foreigner movement gained momentum in Assam, the ethnocentric Khasi organizations like the Khasi Students Union and the [[Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council]]<ref name="pariat2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.motherlandmagazine.com/insideoutsiders/|title=Inside/Outsiders|last=Pariat|first=Janice|date=8 November 2013|work=Motherland|publisher=Wieden+Kennedy|access-date=10 June 2018|location=New Delhi}}</ref> raised the slogan of ''Beh Dkhar'', literally meaning 'chase the Dkhars away',<ref name="lyngdoh2016">{{cite thesis |last=Lyngdoh |first=Margaret |date=28 March 2016 |title=Transformation, Tradition, and Lived Realities: Vernacular Belief Worlds of the Khasis of Northeastern India |type=PhD |publisher=University of Tartu |oclc=614785252 |url=https://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/51059 |access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> directed against the non tribals migrants of the state. Martin Narayan Majaw, the mercurial leader of another ethnocentric Khasi group called Demands Implementation Committee stated clearly, "We don't like outsiders to stay here. We tell them, come here, appreciate the blue sky and the green hills, and then go away."<ref name="it15121979"/> | ||