ABSTRACT
In lieu of a conclusion, the postscript advances the book’s main approach and arguments. It revisits the book’s goal of engendering the post-independence conflictual association of Assam with mainland India to reclaim women’s histories and reconstruct a gendered analysis of Assam’s ethno-nationalist conflicts that are the consequence of this long association. Additionally, it reassesses the pathways that the book argues will lead to engendering peace in violent geopolitical peripheries globally, while reiterating the need for combining practice, politics, and theory in building positive and organic peace. Such peace will both draw from and inform the experiences of marginalized constituencies. To that end, critical reflection on the past experiences of marginalization must accompany the hope for a just and equitable feminist future. This future must be open to constantly interrogating itself so that it does not replicate previously existing patterns of dominance and subjugation, reigniting violence.
