How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article traces the legal and political history of land dispossession affecting the ethnic minorities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh, linking their loss of land to broader questions of identity and political recognition. The author follows the trajectory from the British military campaigns of the late eighteenth century and the annexation of the CHT as a district in 1860, through the administrative division into
the Chakma, Bohmong and Mong circles in 1884, to the Hill Tracts Manual of 1900 with its restrictions…
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