Looking back into the future : identity & insurgency in Northeast India / M.S. Prabhakara.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi ; Routledge, Abingdon : 2012Description: xxvi, 286 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780415501644 (hardback)
- 23 954.162 PRA 010397
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi | 954.162 PRA 010397 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 010397 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
section I. The word and the idea
section II. Ethnicity and identity
section III. Issues of culture and belief
section IV. Discontent and revolt
section V. Homeland politics
section VI. From the borders of a borderland
section VII. Theoretical underpinnings.
"The book examines questions of identity, ethnicity, sovereignty and insurgency in northeastern India, and especially on Assam and its neighbourhood. Written by an academic-journalist, the various articles situate these in their larger social, economic, political and, above all, historical context, the last being especially important in their becoming a part of colonial India relatively late, well after colonial control was established in the rest of India. Based on close, ground level experience involving extensive travel and interaction with the people, this collection is the result of a long journalistic career spanning nearly 50 years in the northeast region. Written in simple, lucid language, the essays cover a range of themes including culture, belief, and identity; homeland and language politics; and insurgency and separatism. The volume also achieves a uniquely dual historical value--while the articles themselves include a lot of historical information tracing the roots of the various issues discussed, the articles themselves range from 1974 to 2010, providing the modern reader with a series of historical moments captured in their immediacy. Of interest to students, academics, researchers in politics, peace & conflict studies, politics, sociology, history, language, those interested in northeast India, policy-makers, cultural studies, etc."--Publisher's website.
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