1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Northeast India
Northeast India: An Introduction
Jelle J.P. Wouters and Tanka B. Subba
1. Ahom Legacy
Sanjeeb Kakoty
2. Animism
Tanka B. Subba
3. Assam–Bangladesh Border
H. Srikanth
4. Biodiversity
B.K. Tiwari
5. Brahmaputra
Arupjyoti Saikia
6. Buddhist Studies
Mélanie Vandenhelsken
7. Christian Medical Missions
David R. Syiemlieh
8. Cities
Duncan McDuie-Ra
9. Clan
Philippe Ramirez
10. Colonial Frontiers
Gunnel Cederlöf
11. Commons and Wildlife Conservation
Willem van Schendel
12. Community Language Research
Yankee Modi
13. Conquest and Colonization
Sanghamitra Misra
14. Cross-Border Physical Connectivity
Sreeradha Datta
15. Cultural Citizenship
Swargajyoti Gohain
16. Customary Law
Erik de Maaker
17. Dance Cultures
Debanjali Biswas
18. Delimitation
Vikas Kumar
19. Democracy and Elections
Jelle J.P. Wouters
20. Developmentalism
Rakhee Bhattacharya
21. Development-Induced Displacement
Walter Fernandes
22. Domesticating Paddy
Manjil Hazarika
23. Dreams
Michael T. Heneise
24. Ethnomusicology
Rehanna Kheshgi
25. Ethno-Regionalism
Miriam Wenner
26. Fifth Language Family
Bishakha Das and Anvita Abbi
27. Food
Queenbala Marak
28. Foothills
Maranatha G.T. Wahlang
29. Frontier Baptists
G. Kanato Chophy
30. Frontier Feudalism
Awadhesh Coomar Sinha
31. Geomorphology
Sunil Kumar De
32. Global Wars in Colonial Frontier
Aditya Kiran Kakati
33. Government Statistics
Vikas Kumar
34. Healing
Michael T. Heneise
35. Himalaya as Method
Swatahsiddha Sarkar
36. Hinduism
Samyak Ghosh
37. Hindutva Futures
Arkotong Longkumer
38. Human–Elephant Worlds
Paul G. Keil and Nicolas Lainé
39. Hunting
Anwesha Dutta and Sutirtha Lahiri
40. Hydropower
Amelie Huber
41. Indigeneity
R.K. Debbarma
42. Indigenous Archaeology
Tiatoshi Jamir
43. Infrastructure
Raile Rocky Ziipao
44. Inner Line
Imdad Hussain
45. Insurgency
Sanjoy Hazarika
46. Inter-State Border Disputes
T.T. Haokip
47. Language and Culture
Tanmoy Bhattacharya
48. Language and Migration
Tanmoy Bhattacharya
49. Language Contact and Convergence
Gargi Roy and K.V. Subbarao
50. Literary Traditions
K. B. Veio Pou
51. Look East Policy
C. Joshua Thomas and Haans J. Freddy
52. Materiality of Religion
Vibha Joshi
53. Megalithic Traditions
Queenbala Marak
54. Migration
Debendra Kumar Nayak
55. Multiple Partitions
Sajal Nag
56. Multispecies Studies
Roderick Wijunamai
57. Museums
Edward Moon-Little
58. Names and Naming
Joy L.K. Pachuau
59. Nation
Roluahpuia
60. Oral Narratives
Desmond L. Kharmawphlang
61. Popular Culture
Rhelo Kenye and K.B. Veio Pou
62. Postcolonial Other
Yasmin Saikia
63. Resource Frontier
Bengt G. Karlsson
64. Sacrifice
Edward Moon-Little
65. Shifting Cultivation
B.K. Tiwari
66. Sixth Schedule
Virginius Xaxa
67. Species Extinction
Amit R. Baishya
68. Sylhet Referendum
Anindita Dasgupta
69. Syntactic Typology
K.V. Subbarao
70. Tea
Sarah Besky
71. Territoriality
Thongkholal Haokip
72. Tibeto-Burman Languages
Scott DeLancey
73. Transboundary Spaces
Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman
74. Trans-Himalayan Trade
Tina Harris
75. Travellers, Sojourners, and Wayfarers
Kyle Jackson
76. Tribe
Jelle J.P. Wouters
77. Upland Languages
Mark W. Post
78. Urbanisation
Avaya Chandra Mohapatra
79. Violence
Jogendro Kshetrimayum
80. Women and Labour
Mona Chettri
81. Youth Activism
Kaustubh Deka
Biography
Jelle J.P. Wouters is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. He holds an MPhil (with distinction) in social anthropology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in anthropology from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Prior to joining Royal Thimphu College, he taught at Sikkim University, India, and was a visiting faculty at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, under the ‘Excellence Initiative’ of the German Research Foundation. He has published about political lifeworlds, democracy and elections, insurgency and violence, kinship and identity, capitalism and resource-extraction, and social history of Northeast India.
Tanka B. Subba is a retired Professor from the Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Sikkim University from 2012 to 2017. He has received awards like the Homi Bhabha Fellowship (Mumbai), Dr Panchanan Mitra Lectureship and R.P. Chanda Centenary Medal for 2015 (Asiatic Society, Kolkata), DAAD Guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, and Baden-Wuerttemberg Fellowship at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg. He was a member of the Academic Councils of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, and Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, and served as a member of the Advisory Boards of the National Museum of Mankind, Bhopal, Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, and the INTACH, New Delhi.
