ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 focuses on the circumstances of Latrymbai, a village in the immediate vicinity of Assam. The concerns of the villagers revolve around a government-initiated ecotourism park that threatens to slowly incorporate them. Simultaneously, villagers are confronted with restrictions on free movement through the park and several attempts at negotiating with the government to develop an alternative road have failed. Villagers react to the slow expansion of the state in their living space with a mixture of weariness and anxiety. To shake off the yoke of state power they increasingly abandon any sense of attachment connecting them to Latrymbai.
