Communities, Institutions and Histories of India’s Northeast
Communities, Institutions and Histories of India’s Northeast

Author: Charisma K. Lepcha

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1000506525

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People from India’s Northeast have crafted distinct as well as diverse cultural cryptograms, discernments and personality which is frequently at loggerheads with the power politics from outside the region. Thus, attention is often on the societies of the Northeast India as they putter with transforming institutions and more intensive resource consumption in the wake of modernization and development activities. This volume is an examination into questions of who exercises control, who constructs knowledge/ideas about the region and how far such discourses are people-centric. It inspects how India’s Northeast have been understood in colonial and post-colonial contexts through the contributions from research scholars and faculties from different academic spaces. These contributions are both from within the region as well as from neighbourhood. Thus, presenting a cross-dimensional gaze on social, political, economic as well as issues related to space-relation. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Northeast India
Northeast India

Author: Bhagat Oinam

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0429953208

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Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemic violence and conflicts. One of the first of its kind, this reader on Northeast India examines myriad aspects of the region – its people and its linguistic and cultural diversity. The chapters here highlight the key issues confronted by the Northeast in recent times: its history, politics, economy, gender equations, migration, ethnicity, literature and traditional performative practices. The book presents interlinkages between a range of socio-cultural issues and armed political violence while covering topics such as federalism, nationality, population, migration and social change. It discusses debates on development with a view to comprehensive policies and state intervention. With its a nuanced and wide-ranging overview, this volume makes new contributions to understanding a region that is critical to the future of South Asian geopolitics. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of contemporary Northeast India as well as history, political science, area studies, international relations, sociology and social anthropology. It will also appeal to those interested in public administration, regional literature, cultural studies, population studies, development studies and economics. Chapter 31 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Unruly Hills
Unruly Hills

Author: Bengt G. Karlsson

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0857451057

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The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification> of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an insightful account of present-day challenges for indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic sovereignty and development.

Encyclopaedia of North-East India
Encyclopaedia of North-East India

Author: H. M. Bareh

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9788170997870

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Contents: Vol. 1: Arunachal Pradesh, Vol. 2: Assam, Vol. 3: Manipur, Vol. 4: Meghalaya, Vol. 5: Mizoram, Vol. 6: Nagaland, Vol. 7: Sikkim, Vol. 8: Tripura

Governing India's Northeast
Governing India's Northeast

Author: Samir Kumar Das

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 8132211464

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​This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violence, interethnic conflict and insurgency; and at another, traces macro changes in the very forms and technologies of governance. The essays in this volume point to how changing forms and technologies of governing insurgency, development and culture do not remain mere instruments of peace, but define the very nature and content of both peace and conflict and their interrelationship in the region. For the first time in the history of scholarship on the region, the three crucial issues of insurgency, development and culture have been analysed through the lens of governance. This volume, therefore, marks an important addition to the scholarship on the region.

Pre-colonial Northeast India
Pre-colonial Northeast India

Author: Fuz̤ail Aḥmad Qādrī

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

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Revised version of paper presented at the Seminar on Pre-colonial Northeast India : a Portrait from Persian Accounts, held at Guwahati on 19th April 2004.

Becoming Something Else
Becoming Something Else

Author: N.William Singh

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-11-25

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1443886335

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This book examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India’s northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies. Each chapter questions the nature of change, and highlights issues which are not a matter of choice but of conviction of the society. This volume will be informative to students and researchers in area studies programmes, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, law, public administration, and ethnology.

Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy
Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy

Author: Melvil Pereira

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1351403664

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This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework. The book: charts the transition of traditions from colonial rule to present day, through constitutionalism and the consolidation of autonomous identities, as well as outlines contemporary debates in an increasingly modernising region; explores the theoretical context of legal pluralism and its implications, compares the personal legal systems with that of the mainland, and discusses customary law’s continuing popularity (both pragmatic and ideological) and common law; brings together case studies from across the eight states and focuses on the way individual systems and procedures manifest among various tribes and communities in the voices of tribal and non-tribal scholars; and highlights the resilience and relevance of alternative systems of redressal, including conflict resolution and women’s rights. Part of the prestigious ‘Transition in Northeastern India’ series, this book presents an interesting blend of theory and practice, key case studies and examples to study legal pluralism in multicultural contexts. It will be of great interest to students of law and social sciences, anthropology, political science, peace and conflict studies, besides administrators, judicial officers and lawyers in Northeast India, legal scholars and students of tribal law, and members of customary law courts of various tribal communities in Northeast India.