ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas.

A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general.

chapter |17 pages

Northeast India

An Introduction

chapter 1|6 pages

Ahom Legacy

chapter 2|5 pages

Animism

chapter 3|6 pages

Assam–Bangladesh Border

chapter 4|6 pages

Biodiversity

chapter 5|5 pages

Brahmaputra

chapter 6|6 pages

Buddhist Studies

chapter 7|5 pages

Christian Medical Missions

chapter 8|6 pages

Cities

chapter 9|5 pages

Clan

chapter 10|5 pages

Colonial Frontiers

chapter 12|6 pages

Community Language Research

chapter 13|5 pages

Conquest and Colonization

chapter 15|6 pages

Cultural Citizenship

chapter 16|5 pages

Customary Law

chapter 17|6 pages

Dance Cultures

chapter 18|6 pages

Delimitation

chapter 19|6 pages

Democracy and Elections

chapter 20|6 pages

Developmentalism

chapter 22|6 pages

Domesticating Paddy

chapter 23|6 pages

Dreams

chapter 24|6 pages

Ethnomusicology

chapter 25|6 pages

Ethno-Regionalism

chapter 26|7 pages

Fifth Language Family

chapter 27|5 pages

Food

chapter 28|5 pages

Foothills

chapter 29|6 pages

Frontier Baptists

chapter 30|5 pages

Frontier Feudalism

chapter 31|7 pages

Geomorphology

chapter 33|8 pages

Government Statistics

chapter 34|5 pages

Healing

chapter 35|6 pages

Himalaya as Method

chapter 36|5 pages

Hinduism

chapter 37|6 pages

Hindutva Futures

chapter 38|7 pages

Human–Elephant Worlds

chapter 39|5 pages

Hunting

chapter 40|6 pages

Hydropower

chapter 41|6 pages

Indigeneity

chapter 42|6 pages

Indigenous Archaeology

chapter 43|6 pages

Infrastructure

chapter 44|5 pages

Inner Line

chapter 45|6 pages

Insurgency

chapter 46|5 pages

Inter-State Border Disputes

chapter 47|8 pages

Language and Culture

chapter 48|7 pages

Language and Migration

chapter 50|5 pages

Literary Traditions

chapter 51|6 pages

Look East Policy

chapter 52|6 pages

Materiality of Religion

chapter 53|6 pages

Megalithic Traditions

chapter 54|6 pages

Migration

chapter 55|6 pages

Multiple Partitions

chapter 56|6 pages

Multispecies Studies

chapter 57|6 pages

Museums

chapter 58|5 pages

Names and Naming

chapter 59|5 pages

Nation

chapter 60|6 pages

Oral Narratives

chapter 61|5 pages

Popular Culture

chapter 62|7 pages

Postcolonial Other

chapter 63|6 pages

Resource Frontier

chapter 64|6 pages

Sacrifice

chapter 65|6 pages

Shifting Cultivation

chapter 66|6 pages

Sixth Schedule

chapter 67|6 pages

Species Extinction

chapter 68|6 pages

Sylhet Referendum

chapter 69|11 pages

Syntactic Typology

chapter 70|5 pages

Tea

chapter 71|6 pages

Territoriality

chapter 72|6 pages

Tibeto-Burman Languages

chapter 73|6 pages

Transboundary Spaces

chapter 74|5 pages

Trans-Himalayan Trade

chapter 76|6 pages

Tribe

chapter 77|6 pages

Upland Languages

chapter 78|5 pages

Urbanisation

chapter 79|5 pages

Violence

chapter 80|6 pages

Women and Labour

chapter 81|6 pages

Youth Activism