Northeast India : A Reader / Bhagat Oinam & Dhiren A. Sadokpam.

Introduction Part I: Armed Political Violence 1. Nationalist Ideology, Militarization and Human Rights in the Northeast 2. Armed Opposition Groups in Northeast India: The Splinter Scenario Part II: The Extra-Ordinary Law and Its Impact 3. Violence as AFSPA 1958 and the People’s Movement Against It 4. People’s Conversation on Truth, Justice and Reparation Part III: National Questions 5. Assamese Nationality Question 6. Challenges and Predicaments of Naga Nationalism 7. Narrating the Nation in Manipur: Reproduction of a Historical Question Part IV: Land and Territoriality 8. Land, People and Conflict: A Study of Manipur and its Neighbourhood 9. Politics of Land Alienation and Problem of its Restoration in Tripura Part V: Migration and Ethnicity 10. Illegal Bangladeshi Migration into the Northeast: Policy Making, Politics, and Road Blocks 11. Employment, Unemployment, Job Aspiration and Migration: Some Reflections of Tangkhul Migrants to Delhi Part VI. Federal Politics 12. Salvaging Autonomy in India’s Northeast: Beyond the Sixth Schedule Way 13. Autonomy for Tribal Communities in India: A Study of the Northeastern States Part VII: Locating Civil Society 14. Fast Forward or Living in Permanent State of Nature? 15. Civil Society and Democracy: Absence of the Sovereign in Northeast India 16. Pang-Sau or Redeeming India’s Northeast from Impoverished Constitutionalisms: After-life of an Essay Part VIII: Tradition And Modernity 17. Colonial Modernity and Plight of the Receiving Communities 18. In the Name of a Flyover: Development, Resistance, Politics Part IX: Popular Culture 19. Music, Body and Sexuality in Bihu Songs of Assam 20. Problematizing Cultural Appropriation: Tangkhul Folk-Blues and Socio-Political Aspirations 21. Poetic Discourse in the Songs of Tapta Part X: Literary Trends 22. Manipuri Literature in History 23. Growth and Development of Mizo Literature 24. Differing Resistances: Mediating the Naga Struggle in Easterine Iralu’s A Terrible Matriarchy and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home Part XI: Women and Gender 25. The Politics of Gendered Resistance: Body and Agency 26. We have got things to say: Beyond the Nationalising Narrative of the Bodoland movement Part XII: State and Development Policies 27. Building Northeastern Futures, Looking East 28. Preparing the Northeastern Economy for the Future 29. Critiquing the Development Intervention in the Northeast 30. Understanding Underdevelopment: State of Economy in the Northeast 31. Re-imagining the North East in India, Again: Did Geography Sidestep History in Vision (2020)? 32. Post-Development, Democratic Discourse and Dissensus: A Critique of Vision 2020 Index