ABSTRACT
Postcolonial scholarship on Northeast India has been largely bounded by the region’s geographic limits. In recent years, however, an emerging literature is revealing another Northeast India by tracking the lived experiences of tribal youths moving out of the region to ‘mainland’ India and beyond. Urban, mobile, circulatory—these sojourners do not easily fit within popular imaginations of the frontier. But wayfarers have long circulated between rural and urban spaces, across valleys and eastern Himalayan foothills. This entry centres the traveller, showing how the stories of uplanders at lower elevations and distant urban centres—away from frontiers and rural borderlands—constitute, rather than merely add to, the history of Northeast India.
