Mass displacement of population due to ethnic conflict is a very recurrent phenomenon in the state of Assam, India. As these displaced people remain inside the Indian Territory, they become Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Some of them are forced to remain inside the makeshift relief camp for decades without basic necessities, whereas others return back shortly. Available literatures relating to population displacement in Assam and northeast India are mainly focused on ethnic conflict or have political orientation or are written with telescopic view, whereby real sufferings, agonies and...