ABSTRACT
People from India’s Northeast have crafted distinct as well as diverse cultural cryptograms, discernments and personality which is frequently at loggerheads with the power politics from outside the region. Thus, attention is often on the societies of the Northeast India as they putter with transforming institutions and more intensive resource consumption in the wake of modernization and development activities. This volume is an examination into questions of who exercises control, who constructs knowledge/ideas about the region and how far such discourses are people-centric. It inspects how India’s Northeast have been understood in colonial and post-colonial contexts through the contributions from research scholars and faculties from different academic spaces. These contributions are both from within the region as well as from neighbourhood. Thus, presenting a cross-dimensional gaze on social, political, economic as well as issues related to space-relation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|53 pages
Framing the Northeast
chapter 1|18 pages
A Tale of Many Brahmaputras
chapter 3|17 pages
Analysing the Contours of India's ‘New’ Regional Diplomacy
part II|64 pages
Being a Northeasterner
chapter 5|19 pages
Dabbling with Kaleidoscopic Narratives
chapter 7|14 pages
Social Exclusion of Char Inhabitants in Assam
part III|95 pages
Institutions, Resources and Sustainability
chapter 11|17 pages
The Socio-Cultural Underpinnings of Democracy in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya
chapter 13|19 pages
A Journey from Sohliya to Strawberries
part IV|83 pages
Cross-Border Interaction and Migration
chapter 16|20 pages
Ethnicity and Great Power Politics
chapter 18|17 pages
Enduring Racial Milieu
part V|60 pages
Language, Literature and Society