Northeast India: A Place of Relations

ISBN-13: 9781107191297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 232 str.

Yasmin Saikia; Amit Baishya

Opis

Explores the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of Northeast India from within.

Spis treści

List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction Yasmin Saikia and Amit Baishya; Part I. Contemporary Politics and Issues of Definition: 1. Solidarity, visibility, and vulnerability: 'Northeast' as a racial category in India Duncan McDuie-Ra; 2. India and its Northeast: another big push without a take-off? Sanjib Baruah; 3. (Un)natural disasters and the role of the state in the Brahmaputra Valley Assam Mitul Baruah; Part II. Creating Presence: 4. Bonnie guest house: fieldwork and friendship across borders Bengt G. Karlsson; 5. The Muslims of Assam: present/absent history Yasmin Saikia; 6. Ichthyonomics, or fish and humans in the time of floods: rethinking speciation in Assam Sean Dowdy; Part III. Knowing through Experience: 7. Dismembered lives: narrating history's footnotes in Aulingar Jui Amit R. Baishya; 8. Freedom and frustrated hopes: assessing the Jadonang movement, 1917–32 Arkotong Longkumer; 9. Celebrating a new 'New Year' in Tripura: space, place and identity politics R. K. Debbarma; Part IV. Rethinking Politics: 10. Difficult loves: purity and hardship Dolly Kikon; 11. Politics of difference in the Northeast: a feminist reflection Papori Bora; 12. Robes, rivers and ruptured spaces: hydro-power projects in west Arunachal Pradesh Swargajyoti Gohain; Glossary.