ABSTRACT
Northeast India in the past hundred years has seen major shifts in its ethnic landscape and polity. Post-independent India in the region has moved from organic geo-political body to fractured polity and antagonistic ethnic identity claims largely created by the Indian state’s struggle to retain its territorial integrity. The challenge before the ethnogenes is to devise ways of responding to both the militaristic framework as well as the newly devised ‘development’ mantra of the Indian state.
