Northeast India

<p>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. </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>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.</li> </ul><ul> <p> </p> <li>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. </li> </ul><ul> <p> </p> <li>It discusses debates on development with a view to comprehensive policies and state intervention. </li> </ul><p>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.</p> <p>Introduction<i> </i><b>Part I: Armed Political Violence 1. </b>Nationalist Ideology, Militarization and Human Rights in the Northeast <b>2.</b><i> </i>Armed Opposition Groups in Northeast India: The Splinter Scenario<em> </em><strong>Part II: The Extra-Ordinary Law and Its Impact 3. </strong>Violence as AFSPA 1958 and the People’s Movement Against It <b>4.</b><i> </i>People’s Conversation on Truth, Justice and Reparation<em> </em><b>Part III: National Questions 5. </b>Assamese Nationality Question <i> </i><strong>6.</strong><i> </i>Challenges and Predicaments of Naga Nationalism<em> </em><strong>7.</strong><em> </em>Narrating the Nation in Manipur: Reproduction of a Historical Question<i> </i><b>Part IV: Land and Territoriality 8.</b> Land, People and Conflict: A Study of Manipur and its Neighbourhood<em> </em><strong>9.</strong><em> </em>Politics of Land Alienation and Problem of its Restoration in Tripura<em> </em><b>Part</b><i> </i><b>V: Migration and Ethnicity 10. </b>Illegal Bangladeshi Migration into the Northeast: Policy Making, Politics, and Road Blocks<i> </i><b>11.</b> Employment, Unemployment, Job Aspiration and Migration: Some Reflections of Tangkhul Migrants to Delhi<i> </i><b>Part</b><i> </i><b>VI. Federal Politics 12. </b>Salvaging Autonomy in India’s Northeast: Beyond the Sixth Schedule Way<i> </i><b>13.</b> Autonomy for Tribal Communities in India: A Study of the Northeastern States<em> </em><b>Part</b><i> </i><b>VII: Locating Civil Society 14. </b>Fast Forward or Living in Permanent State of Nature? <b>15.</b><i> </i>Civil Society and Democracy: Absence of the Sovereign in Northeast India <b>16.</b><i> </i>Pang-Sau or Redeeming India’s Northeast from Impoverished Constitutionalisms: After-life of an Essay <i> </i><b>Part</b><i> </i><strong>VIII: Tradition And Modernity 17. </strong>Colonial Modernity and Plight of the Receiving Communities <strong>18.</strong><em> </em>In the Name of a Flyover: Development, Resistance, Politics<em> </em><strong>Part</strong><i> </i><b>IX: Popular Culture 19. </b>Music, Body and Sexuality in Bihu Songs of Assam <b>20.</b><i> </i>Problematizing Cultural Appropriation: Tangkhul Folk-Blues and Socio-Political Aspirations <b>21.</b><i> </i>Poetic Discourse in the Songs of Tapta<em> </em><b>Part</b><i> </i><b>X: Literary Trends 22. </b>Manipuri Literature in History <b>23.</b><i> </i>Growth and Development of Mizo Literature <b>24.</b><em> </em>Differing Resistances: Mediating the Naga Struggle in Easterine Iralu’s A<i> Terrible Matriarchy </i>and Temsula Ao’s <i>These Hills Called Home </i><b>Part</b><i> </i><b>XI: Women and Gender 25. </b>The Politics of Gendered Resistance: Body and Agency <b>26.</b><i> </i>We have got things to say: Beyond the Nationalising Narrative of the Bodoland movement<em> </em><strong>Part<i> </i>XII: State and Development Policies 27. </strong>Building Northeastern Futures, Looking East<em> </em><strong>28. </strong>Preparing the Northeastern Economy for the Future <strong>29.</strong><em> </em>Critiquing the Development Intervention in the Northeast <strong>30. </strong>Understanding Underdevelopment: State of Economy in the Northeast <strong>31. </strong>Re-imagining the North East in India, Again: Did Geography Sidestep History in <em>Vision (2020)</em>? <b>32.</b><i> </i>Post-Development, Democratic Discourse and Dissensus: A Critique of Vision 2020 <em> </em>Index</p>