A Report Returns: Reading the 1983 Enquiry in the Present Moment
The Government of Assam is preparing to re-table the report of the Commission of Enquiry on Assam Disturbances, 1983, chaired by Tribhuvan Prasad Tewary, 0n 25th November 2025. Submitted in May 1984, the Tewary Report, which is more than 500 pages, has remained largely inaccessible to the public for four decades. It’s reappearance now is not only administrative; it unfolds in a political moment where questions of citizenship, settlement, land and belonging again occupy the centre of public debate and concern.
