The unsettled settlers of Arunachal Pradesh
Tensions between the settlers, who are primarily families of Gurkhas who served in the Army and the Assam Rifles, and the Yobins, a trans-border community that was given Scheduled Tribe status, have been rising since 2020 in Vijaynagar. Rahul Karmakar reports on how the settlers, whose families once guarded the borders, now live in fear of being ejected as some of them have been asked to show permits to travel elsewhere in the State