ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an ethnographic view of the intricate nexus of various stakeholders in building infrastructure and subsequently sheds light on the social and political processes of creating and maintaining infrastructure. This chapter discusses in detail the inter-linkages between various stakeholders, such as tribal elites, bureaucrats, ministers, contractors and insurgents. This chapter points out how the parallel forms of civil administration, one by the government of Manipur and the other by insurgent groups, have put common citizens in a perpetual state of insecurity and anxiety.
