ABSTRACT
Post-independence, the security landscape in India underwent a paradigm shift, with the challenges having become more complex and diverse. This resulted mainly from the broadening of the concept of security and the consequent recognition of the multiplicity of security challenges that emerged to confront the nation. The human security way of understanding security and development combines various approaches, broadens them to include a rights-based approach and argues that looking at socio-economic issues including development through the lens of national security or simply underdevelopment is insufficient. The 1994 United Nations Development Programme Report is believed to be the first significant attempt at articulating the broad approach to human security. Northeast India's first encounter with British colonialism began in 1826, with the conclusion of the Treaty of Yandaboo. The treaty, concluded between the defeated Burmese invaders and the British, paved the way for aggressive colonial penetration into the region on a large scale.
