1st Edition

The Northeast Question Conflicts and frontiers

By Pradip Phanjoubam Copyright 2016
228 Pages
by Routledge India

228 Pages
by Routledge India

228 Pages
by Routledge India

This book explores the idea, psychology and political geography of Northeast India as forged by two interrelated but autonomous meta-narratives. First, the politics of conflict inherent in, and therefore predetermined by physical geography, and second, the larger geopolitics that was unfolding during the colonial period. Unravelling the history behind the turmoil engulfing Northeast India, the... Read more

Dedication Introduction  1: The Geography of Conflict in Northeast: Rivers, Valleys, Mountains as Integral Region  2: History of Militarisation of the Northeast: Search for a Liberal Response to Radical Civil Unrests 3: Eastern Frontier of the Northeast India: State and Non-State  4: Inner Line as Outer Line-I: The Making of the McMahon Line  5: Inner Line as Outer Line – II: Empire and its Colony  6: Linguistic Nationalism versus Religious Nationalism: Partition Trauma and the Northeast  7: Conclusion: In the End is the beginning Bibliography

Biography

Pradip Phanjoubam is the Editor of Imphal Free Press and is based in Imphal, Manipur, India. He began his career as a journalist in 1986 as a sub-editor at The Economic Times, New Delhi. He has written extensively on affairs of the Northeast for many reputed publications, both in the mainstream media as well as academic journals. He was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2012–14) at the time of writing this book.