ABSTRACT
This chapter importantly points towards a colossal gap in the environmental history in this region. The northeastern region has been one of the most important regions in the colonial and post-colonial state-making projects, while its vast natural world attracted attention and was subjected to appropriation. In this context, it raises a pertinent question as to why regional historical writings ignored such subject of importance and were heavily focused on issues of political autonomy, ethnicity, identity and insurgency. In a way, such critical vacuum in the understanding of slow and gradual ecological disasters also raises questions about the priorities of academia. The chapter, however, attempts to fill the gap by collating the discrete works of the environmental historians of the northeastern region whose interventions need to be acclaimed for providing the knowledge base on the issue of transforming environment. This bibliographical landscape on the environmental history thus becomes significant in the corpus of writings on the environment, environmental challenges and people's lives in this vulnerable space of Eastern Himalaya and helps to draw the attention of the next-generation scholars.
