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Insurgency in India's Northeast
Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance
Jugdep Chima, Pahi Saikia
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Insurgency in India's Northeast
Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance
Jugdep Chima, Pahi Saikia
About This Book
Insurgency in India's Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing primarily on the postcolonial period.
This book presents a parsimonious analytic narrative involving a rich sequential account of the historical evolution of Mizo, Naga, Meitei, and "ethnic Assamese" identities from precolonial to colonial to postcolonial times. Avoiding essentialist or primordialist arguments, the chapters in the book demonstrate how ethnic/(sub)national identities are dynamic and malleable phenomenon, not immutable natural givens. In particular, it argues that the postcolonial Indian state has attempted to integrate these ethnic/sub-state national groups into the Indian Union through a combination of democratic accommodation/consociationalism and hegemonic/violent control, strategically designed to encapsulate their evolving (sub) national identities into the overarching state-sponsored Indian nationality.
Through this book, readers will gain a rich understanding of the dynamics of ethnicity/ nationality and the nation/state-building process in postcolonial India. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Asian studies, ethnicity, nationalism, separatism, security studies, border studies, and international relations.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Concerns and Analytical Framework
- 3 The Mizos of Mizoram: From Ethnic Rebellion to Successful Political Integration into the Postcolonial Indian Union
- 4 The Nagas of Nagaland: Sustained Armed Resistance to Political and Cultural Incorporation into the Indian Union
- 5 The Meitei Rebellion in Manipur: Community Memory, Contested Accession, and Deepening Integration into the India Union
- 6 âEthnic Assameseâ Rebellion in Assam: Amorphous and Fractured Regional Identity, and Deepening Integration into the India Union
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index