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ABSTRACT: The concept of home is frequently defined as a place of residence, typically a house or stable location. Scholars across disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, history, human geography, and philosophy have examined this concept extensively. In the modern Anglo-European context, home is often associated with the family house, symbolising a formative "place of origin" and "return" (Mallet, 63). Postcolonial perspectives expand this understanding to encompass instability and memories shaped by nostalgia, sentiment, and trauma. Feminist writers of the 1970s and 1980s have identified the home as a site of oppression and patriarchal control. For many diaspora writers, home represents both longing and an irretrievable place. This paper investigates the concept of 'home' as it pertains to internal diaspora communities (IDPs) in the North-East, specifically evaluating whether home is best understood as a static place, a personal location, or an imagined space in Arupa Patangia Kalita's novel Felanee.