Unheeded Hinterland

Identity and Sovereignty in Northeast India
Herausgeber: Gogoi, Dilip

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive account of the debates on sovereignty, self-determination and nationalist upsurges in India's Northeast, especially Assam. At a deeper level, it analyses how multi-ethnic societies engage with the nation state. Based on the framework of international relations and geo-politics, the volume locates internal tensions and contradictions among different ethnic groups, alongside the complex interrelationships between the centre and the region. It also proposes a new structure of 'Common Ethnic House' to resolve persistent inter-ethnic tensions among different communities and the impasse between the Northeast and the centre. This book will interest scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, sociology and social anthropology, area studies, peace and conflict studies, especially those concerned with South Asia and Northeast India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138100091
• ISBN-10: 1138100099
• Artikelnr.: 43749450

Autorenporträt

Dilip Gogoi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and teaches International Politics and Human Rights at Cotton College, Cotton College State University, Guwahati, Assam, India. An alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Gogoi has edited Beyond Borders: Look East Policy and Northeast India (2010), co-edited Shifting Terrain: Conflict Dynamics in Northeast India (2012) and Marginal Frontier: Select Essays on Northeast India (2012). His research interests span Northeast India and transnational relations.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations. About the Contributors. Acknowledgement. Part 1:
Locating the Problem 1. Introduction: Sovereignty and National Identity:
The Troubled Trajectory in Northeast India Part 2. Situating the Debate:
Interface of Sovereignty and Self Determination 2. Sovereignty at the
Frontiers: Contests and Contradictions 3. Self Determination, Multi Ethnic
State and quest for Assamese Nationhood 4. 'Sarbabhoum Asom': Three Public
Discourses 5. 'Swadhin Asom': Contesting Territories and Linkages Part 3.
Migration, Contested Citizenship and the Identity 6. Immigration,
Indigeneity and Identity: The Bangladeshi Immigration Question in Assam
Chandan Kumar Sharma 7. The State and the Migrants: Contextualizing the
Citizenship Debate in Assam Part 4. National Consciousness: The Role of
Students and Literary Bodies 8. Identity Consciousness and Students'
Movements: The Role of AASU 9. Assamese Identity and the Ethnic Dissent:
Asom Sahitya Sabha at the Crossroads Part 5. Civil Society, Indian State
and Conflict Resolution 10. Between State and the Insurgents: Violation of
Human Rights in Assam 11. The ULFA and Indian State: Role of Civil Society
in Resolving Conflict 12. .Accommodating Differences: The Indian Democracy
and Assamese Nationalism 13. Postscript: Ending the Impasse and
Reintegrating the Northeast India Glossary. Index.