Northeast India : : A Reader / / editors, Bhagat Oinam, Dhiren A. Sadokpam.

• TeilnehmendeR: Oinam, Bhagat,; Sadokpam, Dhiren A.,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor and Francis,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (pages [436]-452) :; digital file(s).

"Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterised 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 essays 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 interventions in understanding a region that is critical to the future of South Asian geopolitics."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

part, I Armed political violence -- chapter Introduction / Bhagat Oinam Dhiren A. Sadokpam -- chapter 1 Nationalist ideology, militarization and human rights in the Northeast 1 / Kamal Mitra Chenoy -- chapter 2 Armed opposition groups in Northeast India -- The splinter scenario 1 / Patrick Hoenig K. Kokho -- part, II The extraordinary law and its impact -- chapter 3 Violence and terror under AFSPA 1958 and the people’s movement against it 1 / Malem Ningthouja -- chapter 4 People’s conversation on truth, justice and reparation 1 / Anjuman Ara Begum -- part, III National questions -- chapter 5 Assamese nationality question 1 / Sajal Nag -- chapter 6 Challenges and predicaments of Naga nationalism 1 / H. Srikanth C. J. Thomas -- chapter 7 Narrating the nation in Manipur -- Reproduction of a historical question 1 / A. Noni Meetei -- part, IV Land and territoriality -- chapter 8 Land and ethnicity -- A study of Manipur and its neighbourhood 1 / Lokendra Arambam -- chapter 9 Politics of land alienation and problem of its restoration in Tripura 1 / Khakchang Debbarma -- part, V Migration and ethnicity -- chapter 10 Illegal Bangladeshi migration into the Northeast -- Policy making, politics and road blocks 1 / Bibhu Prasad Routray -- chapter 11 Employment, unemployment, job aspiration and migration -- Some reflections of Tangkhul migrants to Delhi 1 / Reimeingam Marchang -- part, VI Federal politics -- chapter 12 Salvaging autonomy in India’s Northeast -- Beyond the Sixth Schedule way 1 / Kham Khan Suan Hausing -- chapter 13 Autonomy for tribal communities in India -- A study of the Northeastern states 1 / M. Amarjeet Singh -- part, VII Locating civil society -- chapter 14 Fast forward or living in a permanent state of nature? 1 / Samir Kumar Das -- chapter 15 Civil society and democracy -- Absence of the sovereign in Northeast India 1 / Kakchingtabam Naresh Sharma -- chapter 16 Pang-Sau or redeeming India’s Northeast from impoverished constitutionalisms -- After-life of an essay 1 / Prasenjit Biswas -- part, VIII Tradition and modernity -- chapter 17 Colonial modernity and plight of the receiving communities 1 / Bhagat Oinam -- chapter 18 In the name of a flyover -- Development, resistance, politics 1 / Yengkhom Jilangamba -- part, IX Popular culture -- chapter 19 Music, body and sexuality in Bihu songs of Assam 1 / Utpola Borah -- chapter 20 Problematizing cultural appropriation -- Tangkhul folk-blues and socio-political aspirations 1 / Dhiren A. Sadokpam -- chapter 21 Poetic discourse in the songs of Tapta 1 / Usham Rojio -- part, X Literary trends -- chapter 22 Manipuri literature in history 1 / Thingnam Kishan Singh -- chapter 23 The origin and development of Mizo literature 1 / Laltluangliana Khiangte -- chapter 24 Differing resistances -- Mediating the Naga struggle in Easterine Iralu’s A Terrible Matriarchy and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home 1 / Ashley Tellis -- part, XI Women and gender -- chapter 25 The politics of gendered resistance -- Body and agency 1 / Sukalpa Bhattacharjee -- chapter 26 ‘We have got things to say’ -- Beyond the nationalizing narrative of the Bodoland movement 1 / Amrapali Basumatary -- part, XII State and development policies -- chapter 27 Building Northeastern futures, looking East 1 / B. G. Verghese -- chapter 28 Preparing the Northeastern economy for the future 1 / Gulshan Sachdeva -- chapter 29 Critiquing the development intervention in the Northeast 1 / Amar Yumnam -- part, XIII Critiques of development discourse -- chapter 30 Understanding underdevelopment -- State of economy in the Northeast 1 / Thingnam Kishan Singh -- chapter 31 Re-imagining the Northeast in India, again -- Did geography sidestep history in Vision (2020)? 1 / Rohan D’Souza -- chapter 32 Post-development, democratic discourse and dissensus -- A critique of Vision 2020 1 / Prasenjit Biswas.