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Troubled periphery : crisis of India's north east / Subir Bhaumik.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sage studies on India's north eastPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9788132104797
  • 813210479X
  • 9788132112792
  • 8132112792
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Troubled periphery.DDC classification:
  • 306.0954/1 22
LOC classification:
  • HN690.N55 B48 2009eb
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Contents:
India's north east : frontier to region -- Ethnicity, ideology and religion -- Land, language, and leadership -- Insurgency, ethnic cleansing and forced migration -- The foreign hand -- Guns, drugs and contraband -- Elections, pressure groups and civil society -- The crisis of development -- The road ahead.
Summary: This book maps the evolution of India's North East into a constituent region of the republic and analyses the perpetual crisis in the region since Independence. It highlights how land, language and leadership issues have been the seed of contention in the North East and how factors like ethnicity, ideology and religion have shaped the conflicts. It also throws light on the major insurgencies, internal displacements, protest movements and the regional drug and weapons trade in the region. It examines 'the crisis of development' and the evolution of the polity before offering a policy framework.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-289) and index.

India's north east : frontier to region -- Ethnicity, ideology and religion -- Land, language, and leadership -- Insurgency, ethnic cleansing and forced migration -- The foreign hand -- Guns, drugs and contraband -- Elections, pressure groups and civil society -- The crisis of development -- The road ahead.

This book maps the evolution of India's North East into a constituent region of the republic and analyses the perpetual crisis in the region since Independence. It highlights how land, language and leadership issues have been the seed of contention in the North East and how factors like ethnicity, ideology and religion have shaped the conflicts. It also throws light on the major insurgencies, internal displacements, protest movements and the regional drug and weapons trade in the region. It examines 'the crisis of development' and the evolution of the polity before offering a policy framework.

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