Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemic violence and conflicts. One of the first of its kind, this reader on Northeast India examines myriad aspects of the region – its people and its linguistic and cultural diversity.
- The chapters here highlight the key issues confronted by the Northeast in recent times: its history, politics, economy, gender equations, migration, ethnicity, literature and traditional performative practices.
- The book presents interlinkages between a range of socio-cultural issues and armed political violence while covering topics such as federalism, nationality, population, migration and social change.
- It discusses debates on development with a view to comprehensive policies and state intervention.
With its a nuanced and wide-ranging overview, this volume makes new contributions to understanding a region that is critical to the future of South Asian geopolitics. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of contemporary Northeast India as well as history, political science, area studies, international relations, sociology and social anthropology. It will also appeal to those interested in public administration, regional literature, cultural studies, population studies, development studies and economics.
Author(s): Bhagat Oinam (editor), Dhiren A. Sadokpam (editor)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge India
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 490
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Armed political violence
1 Nationalist ideology, militarization and human rights in the Northeast
2 Armed opposition groups in Northeast India: The splinter scenario
PART II The extraordinary law and its impact
3 Violence and terror under AFSPA 1958 and the people’s movement against it
4 People’s conversation on truth, justice and reparation
PART III National questions
5 Assamese nationality question
6 Challenges and predicaments of Naga nationalism
7 Narrating the nation in Manipur: Reproduction of a historical question
PART IV Land and territoriality
8 Land and ethnicity: A study of Manipur and its neighbourhood
9 Politics of land alienation and problem of its restoration in Tripura
PART V Migration and ethnicity
10 Illegal Bangladeshi migration into the Northeast: Policy making, politics and road blocks
11 Employment, unemployment, job aspiration and migration: Some reflections of Tangkhul migrants to Delhi
PART VI Federal politics
12 Salvaging autonomy in India’s Northeast: Beyond the Sixth Schedule way
13 Autonomy for tribal communities in India: A study of the Northeastern states
PART VII Locating civil society
14 Fast forward or living in a permanent state of nature?
15 Civil society and democracy: Absence of the sovereign in Northeast India
16 Pang-Sau or redeeming India’s Northeast from impoverished constitutionalisms: After-life of an essay
PART VIII Tradition and modernity
17 Colonial modernity and plight of the receiving communities
18 In the name of a flyover: Development, resistance, politics
PART IX Popular culture
19 Music, body and sexuality in Bihu songs of Assam
20 Problematizing cultural appropriation: Tangkhul folk-blues and socio-political aspirations
21 Poetic discourse in the songs of Tapta
PART X Literary trends
22 Manipuri literature in history
23 The origin and development of Mizo literature
24 Differing resistances: Mediating the Naga struggle in Easterine Iralu’s A Terrible Matriarchy and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home
PART XI Women and gender
25 The politics of gendered resistance: Body and agency
26 ‘We have got things to say’: Beyond the nationalizing narrative of the Bodoland movement
PART XII State and development policies
27 Building Northeastern futures, looking East
28 Preparing the Northeastern economy for the future
29 Critiquing the development intervention in the Northeast
PART XIII Critiques of development discourse
30 Understanding underdevelopment: State of economy in the Northeast
31 Re-imagining the Northeast in India, again: Did geography sidestep history in Vision (2020)?
32 Post-development, democratic discourse and dissensus: A critique of Vision 2020
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