1st Edition
Fixed Borders, Fluid Boundaries Identity, Resources and Mobility in Northeast India
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Periphery Calling: Layers of Divergence
Chandan Kumar Sharma and Reshmi Banerjee
Part 1: Discord around Development
Chapter 1. The Contemporary Process of Economic Development, State Power and Lepcha Resistance in Sikkim: A Macro View
Binod Bhattarai
Chapter 2. Concentrated Development of Specific Areas vis-à-vis Underdevelopment in Peripheral Areas of Meghalaya
Kitdor W. Kharbuli
Chapter 3. Hydrocarbon Exploration in Manipur: Resource Conflict and Community Response
Shreya Saha
Chapter 4. Dispossession Due to Development: A Case Study of the Tiwa Tribe of Central Assam
Dola Borkataki
Part 2: Issues of Identity
Chapter 5. State and Customary Practices: Locating the Power and Authority of the Konyak Anghs
Jagritee Ghosh
Chapter 6. Ethnicity, Immigration and Conflict: The Case of Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD)
Cihnnita Baruah
Chapter 7. ‘Outsiders’ in Bodoland: Categories of Narratives and Practice
Saba Sharma
Chapter 8. Politics of Land and Citizenship in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Fariba Alamgir
Part 3: Borders and Beyond
Chapter 9. Accusations and Belonging in the Southwestern Borderland of Mizoram
N. William Singh
Chapter 10. Ethnography in the Assam–Nagaland Border: Narratives of Conflict
Prafulla Kr. Nath
Chapter 11. Ambiguity, Conflict and Compliance: Myanmar’s Woes Meet North East India
Reshmi Banerjee
Chapter 12. Crossing over the Patkai Mountains: Ethnographic Memoirs as Ruptures and Flows
Kaustubh Deka
Glossary
Index
Biography
Chandan Kumar Sharma is Professor of Sociology at Tezpur University, Assam, India.
Reshmi Banerjee is a political scientist based in London, UK, and is currently a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India.
