ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the argument by way of making a reference to the insurgency in the erstwhile Mizo Hills. It argues that the intersectionality of rights regimes makes it possible for the emergence of new and hitherto unknown political subjects in the region till a new regime comes into existence. The chapter concentrates on the complex interconnection between security, rights and the political subject. Security, rights and the ethnic subject tending to secure ethnic subject by enjoying these rights, thus, formed a nexus during the first phase of insurgency. The insecurity Mizos suffered also constituted them as ethnic subjects distinct from the Assamese or other Indians. A welfare organization called the Mizo National Famine Front (MNFF) formed the MNFF dropped the word 'famine' from its name and became the Mizo National Front and emerged as an ethnic force with the demand for the creation of an independent and fully sovereign State of Mizoram.
