ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how the hill-valley divide continues to be a defining political space and the laying of infrastructure in the state. The chapter concludes by arguing that Manipur’s development experience illuminates how the unequal power relations between various ethnic communities led to social unrest, development disparity, deep hostility and structural inequality. It unearthed an emerging perspective of development from the lived experience of tribal societies and how tribes are subjugated in the ambit of the dominant hegemon.
