New Cultural Rhetoric and Indigenous Resurgence in Postcolonial Bangladesh My dissertation addresses the role of Indigenous Chakma songs, musicians and traditional knowledge-keepers in asserting political sovereignty and building cultural resistance to the historical marginalization and disenfranchisement of Indigenous communities by the repressive state system in postcolonial Bangladesh. It foregrounds the cultural politics of Chakma musicians and intellectuals, who, along with community members, navigated rigid political scrutiny and violence in an ongoing resurgence movement against the state mechanisms. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, from multimodal analysis to autoethnographic and archival research, I aim to ground my research in Indigenous decolonizing approaches, oral history, community activism, digital archiving, and social justice.