Overview

In recent years there has been a significant reorientation in India's policy towards its Northeast region. Yet, Indian policy thinking has been insulated from the virtual intellectual revolution in the last one decade to study armed civil conflicts and ways to manage, resolve, and transform them. This volume lays emphasis on the term 'rethinking' and offers new ways of understanding the conflicts, and of ways to resolve them. The chapters discuss wide-ranging issues which include the multilayered nature of the conflict in the Northeast, and how democratic politics and the world of armed rebellions intersect in complex ways in this region. An analysis of the Naga war and its nation-building project is discussed. How the Northeast figures in postcolonial India's national imagination, how Assamese society engages with the term 'terrorist', and how state-society conflicts are muted in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation, and an alternative vision of development in Arunachal Pradesh have also been discussed.

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Author:   Sanjib Baruah
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.583kg
ISBN:  

9780195698763

ISBN 10:   0195698762
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   05 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

1: Introduction (Sanjib Baruah); Part I: Stalemated Conflicts: What Cost?; 2: Resenting the Indian State: For a New Political Practice in the Northeast (Ananya Vajpeyi); 3: When was the Postcolonial?: A History of Policing Impossible Lines (Bodhisattva Kar); Part II: Nation and its Discontents; 4: From Loin Cloth, Suits, to Battle Greens: Politics of Clothing the 'Naked' Nagas (Dolly Kikon); 5: Writing Terror: Men of Rebellion and Contemporary Assamese Literature (Rakhee Kalita); 6:Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts (Nandana Dutta); Part III: Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion; 7: Northeast Problems as a Subject and Object (Pradip Phanjoubam); 8: Preparing for a Cohesive 'Northeast': Problems of Discourse (Bhagat Oinam); 9: Agency of Rioters: A Study ofDecision-Making in the Nellie Massacre, Assam, 1983 (Makiko Kimura); Part IV: Making Peace, Making War: India's Peace Policy; 10: The Mizo Exception: State-Society Cohesion and Institutional Capability (M. Sajjad Hassan); 11: Peace sans Democracy?: A Study of Ethnic Peace Accords in Northeast India (Samir Kumar Das); 12: Hills-Valley Divide as a Site of Conflict: Emerging Dialogic Space in Manipur (H. Kham Khan Suan); Part V: Breaking the Impasse; 13: Just Development: A Strategy for EthnicReconciliation in Tripura (Subir Bhaumik); 14: Grounds for Democratic Hope in Arunachal Pradesh (Betsy Taylor); 15: Rethinking Delhi's Northeast India Policy: Why neither Counterinsurgency nor Winning Hearts and Minds is the Way Forward (Bethany Lacina); Bibliography, Notes on Contributors,Index

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Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Science at Bard College, New York; Honorary Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; and Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

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