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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chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Northeast India: History of the Present and Predicament of the Future

part I|53 pages

Framing the Northeast

chapter 1|18 pages

A Tale of Many Brahmaputras

Borderlands, Waterscapes and Geographies in Colonial Northeast India

chapter 3|17 pages

Analysing the Contours of India's ‘New’ Regional Diplomacy

The Importance of the Northeast

part II|64 pages

Being a Northeasterner

chapter 4|11 pages

Dressing My Culture

The Mekhela-Chador, Women's Agency and Patriarchy in Assam

chapter 5|19 pages

Dabbling with Kaleidoscopic Narratives

A Pre-requisite for Comprehending the ‘Forgotten’ History of the Róngkups/Lepchas

chapter 6|15 pages

Mob Justice

An Integral Form of Cultural Construct

chapter 7|14 pages

Social Exclusion of Char Inhabitants in Assam

Understanding the Interplay of Culture, Identity and Geography

part III|95 pages

Institutions, Resources and Sustainability

chapter 9|15 pages

The Shift of Authority

From Village Authority to Colonial Court

chapter 10|11 pages

Reframing Tribal Governance in Tripura

TTAADC to the Village

chapter 11|17 pages

The Socio-Cultural Underpinnings of Democracy in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya

Reframing the Past to Understand the Present

chapter 13|19 pages

A Journey from Sohliya to Strawberries

Experiences of Cash Crops, Forest and Food Security in Meghalaya, Northeast India

part IV|83 pages

Cross-Border Interaction and Migration

chapter 14|15 pages

India-Bhutan Borderland

Selected Cases of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam Border

chapter 15|14 pages

Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing

A Study of Chandel District in Manipur

chapter 16|20 pages

Ethnicity and Great Power Politics

A Case of Transnational Ethnic Kachin of Myanmar and Singpho of Northeast India

chapter 18|17 pages

Enduring Racial Milieu

Relevance of Cultural Intelligence in Acculturation of Northeast Indian Migrants

part V|60 pages

Language, Literature and Society

chapter 19|14 pages

Mother Tongue and Identity

With Reference to Ao Community

chapter 20|14 pages

Language and Identity Politics

The Case of Hmar in Northeast India

chapter 21|17 pages

The Past in the Present

A Prismatic Retelling of Angami Naga Folklore

chapter 22|12 pages

Suicide

A Daunting Challenge before the State of Sikkim