manifesto, where it states that the party’s main objective is to achieve the right of self-determination of the various small nationalities in the CHT with a separate entity status of the CHT with a constitutional guarantee. It recognises that the CHT is the homeland of various multi-lingual nationalities, who together have been referred to as the Jumma people. The nostalgia for the past, on the one hand, creates images of ‘outsiders’ and ‘insiders’ among the hill people, and on the other, provides them with a sense of community and unity. With a view to realising Jumma nationalism by way of autonomy for the hill people, during the period of insurgency the PCJSS set out a number of demands: i) the Constitution of Bangladesh shall recognise the CHT as a special administrative unit, with regional autonomy. The three districts of the CHT shall be merged into one unit, and the region shall be renamed Jummaland; ii) Jummaland shall be administered by an autonomous Regional Council, which shall be elected directly by the people on the basis of adult franchise. The Council shall be responsible for 30 subjects including, inter alia, general administration, law and order, police, land, education, forestry, local government institutions, and cultural affairs; iii) all lands in the CHT, except some important government establishment, shall be placed under the jurisdiction of the Council. A constitutional 91 70 Dabeenama (Charter of Demands of the PCJSS to the Government of Bangladesh), JSS Publications, 1992 and 1996.