The Northeast Question: Conflicts and Frontiers

ISBN-13: 9780815395881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017

Pradip Phanjoubam

Opis

This book deals with the issues of conflict and security concerns in the region of Northeast India arguing from the tenets of geography, colonial-militaristic history and concerns emerging from the neighbouring countries of the region.

Spis treści

Dedication Introduction  1: The Geography of Conflict in Northeast: Rivers, Valleys, Mountains as Integral Region  2: History of Militarisation of the Northeast: Search for a Liberal Response to Radical Civil Unrests 3: Eastern Frontier of the Northeast India: State and Non-State  4: Inner Line as Outer Line-I: The Making of the McMahon Line  5: Inner Line as Outer Line – II: Empire and its Colony  6: Linguistic Nationalism versus Religious Nationalism: Partition Trauma and the Northeast  7: Conclusion: In the End is the beginning Bibliography

O autorze

Pradip Phanjoubam is the Editor of Imphal Free Press and is based in Imphal, Manipur, India. He began his career as a journalist in 1986 as a sub-editor at The Economic Times, New Delhi. He has written extensively on affairs of the Northeast for many reputed publications, both in the mainstream media as well as academic journals. He was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2012–14) at the time of writing this book.