[PDF] Ethnic Mobilisation And Violence In Northeast India eBook

Author : Pahi Saikia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 100008373X

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The book is a very detailed work on the relationship between movements for autonomy by indigenous peoples (the so-called ‘tribes’) and violence in Assam, in northeast India. The book addresses some of the reasons for the failure of ethnic conflict management and for the frequent emergence of violence in the region. In particular, the historical description of movements by the Dimasas, Misings and Bodos is well compiled and provides a good summary for the readers. At the same time, the work offers a good understanding of ethnic violence in contemporary India. The volume offers some new research data based on comparative analysis of different trajectories followed by three important movements among Assam’s ethnic minorities. While the pieces of the argument are based on the existing literature on ethnic violence and contentious politics, they are effectively connected to materials drawn from northeast India. Furthermore, the book raises significant concerns on the debates on crafting of decentralised institutions and executive opportunities that may facilitate ethnic accommodation thereby reducing the likelihood of such groups to pursue their goals through channels that are radical or extreme.

Author : Girin Phukon
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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This Volume Comprises Of Papers Presented At A National Seminar Organized By Dibrugorh University In 2004.

Author : Braja Bihārī Kumāra
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnic conflict
ISBN : 9788180694646

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Papers presented at the Seminar on the Problems of Ethnicity in the North-East India, held in 2006 in New Delhi, organized by Astha Bharati.

Author : Komol Singha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317356896

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India’s Northeast has long been riven by protracted armed conflicts for secession and movements for other forms of autonomy. This book shows how the conflicts in the region have gradually shifted towards inter-ethnic feuds, rendered more vicious by the ongoing multiplication of ethnicities in an already heterogeneous region. It further traces the intricate contours of the conflicts and the attempts of the dominant groups to establish their hegemonies against the consent of the smaller groups, as well as questions the efficacy of the state’s interventions. The volume also engages with the recurrent demands for political autonomy, and the resultant conundrum that hobbles the region’s economic and political development processes. Lucid, topical and thorough in analysis, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers in political science, sociology, development studies and peace & conflict studies, particularly those concerned with Northeast India.

Author : Nava Kishor Das
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Dr. N.K. Das had the privilege of conducting systematic social anthrpological research in Nagaland and other regions of North-eAst during 1976-88. Based on the material thus collected, Dr. Das has critically examined the ethno-historical and socio-political processes and factors causing ethnic conflict in sensitive North-East India. Using anthropological insight and historical anlaysis of pre-state segmentary social system among the Zounuo-Keyhonuo Naga, and examines the processes of state formation among the Ahom, Kachari, Meitei, Jaintia, Koch, Karbi and Khasi tribes in time and space dimensions. Other crucial subject matters discussed in this pioneering work are 'concept of tribe' fallacy of unilineal descent theory', 'matriliny to patriliny', 'peasantization','Inequality', `slavery', `social-stratification',`sanskritzation', `Christinaity', `Naga', `Mizo', `(Udayachal) Assam', `GNLF', `TNV', `Karbi',`Bodo' movements, and cultural revivalism.

Author : V R Raghavan
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9382573488

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Northeast India comprises of seven states – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. This region has been the theatre of insurgency and ethnic-based armed conflicts for more than half a century making the region one of South Asia’s most disturbed areas. The instability in Northeast India is characterized by two distinct factors – ethnic clashes among the indigenous groups and political movement against the Union Government. The conflicting dynamics in the Northeast ranges from insurgency for secession to insurgency for autonomy, from terrorism to ethnic clashes, to problems of continuous inflow of migrants and the fight over resources. Moreover, vested interests and inter tribal and inter factional rivalry have led militant groups to continually clash among themselves, plunging the region in a vicious cycle of militancy, social violence and lack of economic growth. These armed conflicts have given impetus to small arms proliferation, narcotics trade and a parallel economy. The democratic deficits and how the Central Government and the states have addressed these concerns are of interest. The location of the region, politically and geographically, has a fundamental bearing on it and its people who aspire for different goals and how they try to reach these goals. The region shares borders with four countries: Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Tibet/China and is connected to the Indian mainland by a narrow stretch of land. This adds to the trans – border ramifications to the conflicts. To address these issues CSA with the help of Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research, Guwahati engaged a few experts who have contributed papers which were presented at the Seminar in New Delhi in July 2010 and the same stand published through this book.

Author : M. M. Agrawal
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9788173870552

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Papers presented at the Seminar on "Ethnicity, Culture, and Nationalism: Problems in the Context of North-East India", held in Sept. 1995 at the North Eastern Hill University.

Author : B. Pakem
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN :

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Communications présentées à une conférence organisée par le North-East India Council for Social Science Research, les 5-6 décembre 1986.

Author : Jelle J. P. Wouters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
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ISBN : 0192863460

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Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and animates Northeast India's spirited political sphere, including the categories and values through which its peoples conceive of their 'political' lives. Fourteen essays by anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and geographers think their way afresh into the region's political life and sense. Collectively they show how different communities, instead of adjusting themselves to modern democratic ideals, adjust democracy to themselves, how ethnicity has become a politically pregnant expression of local identities, and how forms and politics of indigeneity assume a life of its own as it is taken on, articulated, reworked, and fought over by peoples.