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Indigeneity, development and sustainability : Perspectives from Northeast India / Anjan Chakrabarti, Gorky Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Demographic transformation and socio-economic development, 2543-0068 ; volume 18Publisher: Singapore : Springer, 2024Description: xxiv, 422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789819714353 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 305.8 IND 022510
Contents:
Intro Acknowledgements Contents Editors and Contributors Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables 1 An Introduction to Indigeneity, Development, and Sustainability Introduction: Northeast India Indigeneity in Northeast India Indigenous People, Ecology, and Sustainability Are Indigenous Practices Always Sustainable? Indigenous Patriarchies, Access, and Allocation-Dissemination of Resources Indigenous Women and Development Gendering Development Local Autonomy and "Sons/Daughters of Soil Theory" Indigeneity and Development The Layout of the Volume References Part I Northeast: Then and Now 2 The Idea of Northeast India: Contesting the Construct Introduction New Developmental Construct and India's Northeastern Region Contesting the Construct: Moving Beyond Developmental Geography Concluding Annotations 3 Society, Culture, and Tribal Development in Northeast India Introducing the Region Tribal Development in Northeast India Tribal Panchsheel Reciprocity, Surplus, and Tribal Development in Northeast India Conclusion: Act East Policy and Northeast India 4 Historicising Development: Colonialisation, Cartography and Explorations in India's Northeast Colonial Cartography and Explorations Knowing the Brahmaputra The Wilcox Exploration The Williamson Exploration The Lambert Exploration Surveys as Machinery of Rule Official Tours as a Colonial Tool of Governance Conclusions Part II Vexed Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Lessons from the Borderlands 5 Tracing Northeast Region Amidst the Tangle of Geopolitics between India and China Neoliberal View on Northeast and Changing Responses Through Look East/Act East. BIMSTEC, ASEAN, and Creation of Infrastructural Web: China and India Entanglement Unrest in Thailand and Myanmar: India's Geoeconomic Labyrinth The Maritime Silk Route and Indo-Pacific Region on Browl Inside the Northeast Conclusion 6 Economics of Borderland and Lives: Empirical Understanding from Northeast India Borderland Economy, Livelihoods and Labour Markets Traditional Trade Practices of Northeast Contemporary Development of Trade Practices of Northeast Trade Between India and Bangladesh Trade Between India and Nepal Trade Between India and China Trade Between India and Bhutan Trade Between India and Myanmar Trade Through Northeast via Land Ports Performance Development of Broder Districts Development of Social Infrastructure Development of Psychical Infrastructure 7 Disgruntled Geographies and Contested Connectivity in NorthEast India: Between Wireless and Wiremore Understanding the "Disgruntled Geographies" Political Economy of These "Disgruntled Geographies": to Wire or not to Wire Digital Economy, Digital Democracy and Techno-Nationalism: Wireless Making Northeastern Cities and Spaces Smart: Wireless Versus Wiremore Closing Observations 8 Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier Arunachal as Gateway Road Connectivity Securing the Gates Arunachal as Frontier 9 Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study on Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh Theoretical Framework Conceptual Clarifications Statement of the Problem Significance of the Study Objectives of the Study Methodology and Database Profile of the Select Tribes Puroik. Inter-Regional and Inter-Tribal Variations in the Development of Kurung Kumey District Education Health Care Accessibility Development Initiatives and People's Experiences Beneficiaries Under Development Programmes Problems and Difficulties Faced by the Beneficiaries Underdevelopment in Kurung Kumey District Causes of Underdevelopment in Kurung Kumey District Suggestions to Address Existing Realities Part III Between Leaving and Living: People in Motion 10 Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control Among Gorkhas in Northeast India Finding Gulabi Asmaan (Pink Sky): Chal Ghar Chale (Let's Go Home) Our Sky: Dreams, Hopes and Exasperations Indrajaal: The Webbed in Real and Virtual Some Closing Comments 11 Analyzing Out-Migration: The Unfolding Saga of NEI Out-Migrants in Delhi Methodology Migration Scenario of NEI: Census 1991-2011 Destination Reasons NEI Out-Migration to Delhi: Primary Field Results Reasons for Out-Migration: Exploratory Factor Analysis Discussion Employment Reasons Appendices Appendix 1: Absolute Number of "In-Migrants", "Out-Migrants", and Net Migrants Among the States of NEI (1991-2001) Appendix 2: Percentage Distribution of Different Migration Streams of NEI Out-Migration to the Different Destinations in the Country (1991-2011) Appendix 3: Percentage Distribution of Reasons for Migration for NE Out-Migrants Across the Census Periods of 1991-2011 Appendix 4: Percentage Distribution of the Preferred Destinations for NEI Out-Migrants Across the Census Period of 1991-2011 Appendix 5: Results of Exploratory Factor Analysis Appendix 5.1: KMO and Bartlett's Test. Appendix 5.2: Scree Plot of Factors and Eigen Values Appendix 5.3: Initial Communalities and Communalities After Extraction Appendix 5.4: Total Variance Explained Appendix 5.5: Component Matrix of the Variables Appendix 5.6: Rotated Factor Matrix of the Variables Appendix 5.7: Naming of Factors Loaded Under Each Factor Appendix 6: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Between the Age Group of 15-34 years: India's Scenario (Census 1991-2011) Appendix 7: Percentage Distribution Workers and Non-workers Between the Age Group of 15-34 years: NEI Scenario (Census 1991-2011) Appendix 8: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2001 India Scenario Appendix 9: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2001 NEI Scenario Appendix 10: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2011 India's Scenario Appendix 11: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2011 NEI Scenario 12 Missing Fluvio-Social Dynamics of a Braided River: A Study on a Select Stretch of the Brahmaputra in Assam Review of Literature Study Areas Data and Methodology Materials Methods for River Bank Erosion and Accretion CMZ HMZ Erosion Buffer (EB) Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Field Survey Results and Discussions Variation in the Course of the Brahmaputra Erosion and Accretion Between 1972 and 1980 Between 1980 and 1990 Between 1990 and 2000 Between 2000 and 2010 Between 2010 and 2022 Between 1972 and 2022 River Channel Migration Historic Migration Zone (HMZ) Bank Line Migration Erosion Buffer Zone Channel Migration Zone Impact on Land. LULC Land Use Transformation Land Loss Socio-Political Impact Migration Livelihood Insecurity Issues Related to Identity 13 Discourse on Migration and Human Trafficking from Manipur: Coercion vs Voluntary Locating the Economy of Human Trafficking Part IV Betwixt and Between Belonging and Unbelonging 14 The Fragmented 'Indigenes': Travails of Becoming Bengali in Modern Assam Partition, Loss of Indigeneity, and Closure 'One and Indivisible' 'Shattered Dreams' Closure of History Politics of Refuge Centralizing the Bengalis A World of Their Own Civic Nationalism 15 Citizenship, Inheritances, and Borderlands: Assam's Entangled Histories Historicising Borderlands: The Entangled Inheritances of Assam. Geographies of Citizenship: Deconstructing Assam Fragmented Homogeneities: Brahmaputra Valley and the National Perception of Assam Citizenship in Isolation: The Unique Case of Barak Valley The Unwanted Citizen: Chars and the Elusive Promises of Citizenship Misplaced Singularities: Reconceptualising Assam Conclusion: Writing About Borderlands 16 Forest, Land, and Peasant: The Case of Doyang Reserved Forest in Assam, India Locating the Doyang Reserved Forest Assessing the Peasant in Literature State, Forest Land and the Peasants State, Border and the People State, Ethnicity and the Peasantry Making of Borders and Boundaries in the Three Sets of Relationships 17 Making a 'Peter the Great' in an Imperial Frontier: Educating 'Natives' and Introducing English Language and Roman Script in Manipur Educating the Raja, Educating the 'Natives'. Introducing English Language and the Roman Script.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 An Introduction to Indigeneity, Development, and Sustainability
Introduction: Northeast India
Indigeneity in Northeast India
Indigenous People, Ecology, and Sustainability
Are Indigenous Practices Always Sustainable?
Indigenous Patriarchies, Access, and Allocation-Dissemination of Resources
Indigenous Women and Development
Gendering Development
Local Autonomy and "Sons/Daughters of Soil Theory"
Indigeneity and Development
The Layout of the Volume
References
Part I Northeast: Then and Now
2 The Idea of Northeast India: Contesting the Construct
Introduction
New Developmental Construct and India's Northeastern Region
Contesting the Construct: Moving Beyond Developmental Geography
Concluding Annotations
3 Society, Culture, and Tribal Development in Northeast India
Introducing the Region
Tribal Development in Northeast India
Tribal Panchsheel
Reciprocity, Surplus, and Tribal Development in Northeast India
Conclusion: Act East Policy and Northeast India
4 Historicising Development: Colonialisation, Cartography and Explorations in India's Northeast
Colonial Cartography and Explorations
Knowing the Brahmaputra
The Wilcox Exploration
The Williamson Exploration
The Lambert Exploration
Surveys as Machinery of Rule
Official Tours as a Colonial Tool of Governance
Conclusions
Part II Vexed Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Lessons from the Borderlands
5 Tracing Northeast Region Amidst the Tangle of Geopolitics between India and China
Neoliberal View on Northeast and Changing Responses Through Look East/Act East.
BIMSTEC, ASEAN, and Creation of Infrastructural Web: China and India Entanglement
Unrest in Thailand and Myanmar: India's Geoeconomic Labyrinth
The Maritime Silk Route and Indo-Pacific Region on Browl
Inside the Northeast
Conclusion
6 Economics of Borderland and Lives: Empirical Understanding from Northeast India
Borderland Economy, Livelihoods and Labour Markets
Traditional Trade Practices of Northeast
Contemporary Development of Trade Practices of Northeast
Trade Between India and Bangladesh
Trade Between India and Nepal
Trade Between India and China
Trade Between India and Bhutan
Trade Between India and Myanmar
Trade Through Northeast via Land Ports
Performance Development of Broder Districts Development of Social Infrastructure
Development of Psychical Infrastructure
7 Disgruntled Geographies and Contested Connectivity in NorthEast India: Between Wireless and Wiremore
Understanding the "Disgruntled Geographies"
Political Economy of These "Disgruntled Geographies": to Wire or not to Wire
Digital Economy, Digital Democracy and Techno-Nationalism: Wireless
Making Northeastern Cities and Spaces Smart: Wireless Versus Wiremore
Closing Observations
8 Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier
Arunachal as Gateway
Road Connectivity
Securing the Gates
Arunachal as Frontier
9 Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study on Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh
Theoretical Framework
Conceptual Clarifications
Statement of the Problem
Significance of the Study
Objectives of the Study
Methodology and Database
Profile of the Select Tribes
Puroik.
Inter-Regional and Inter-Tribal Variations in the Development of Kurung Kumey District
Education
Health Care Accessibility
Development Initiatives and People's Experiences
Beneficiaries Under Development Programmes
Problems and Difficulties Faced by the Beneficiaries
Underdevelopment in Kurung Kumey District
Causes of Underdevelopment in Kurung Kumey District
Suggestions to Address Existing Realities
Part III Between Leaving and Living: People in Motion
10 Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control Among Gorkhas in Northeast India
Finding Gulabi Asmaan (Pink Sky): Chal Ghar Chale (Let's Go Home)
Our Sky: Dreams, Hopes and Exasperations
Indrajaal: The Webbed in Real and Virtual
Some Closing Comments
11 Analyzing Out-Migration: The Unfolding Saga of NEI Out-Migrants in Delhi
Methodology
Migration Scenario of NEI: Census 1991-2011
Destination
Reasons
NEI Out-Migration to Delhi: Primary Field Results
Reasons for Out-Migration: Exploratory Factor Analysis
Discussion
Employment Reasons
Appendices
Appendix 1: Absolute Number of "In-Migrants", "Out-Migrants", and Net Migrants Among the States of NEI (1991-2001)
Appendix 2: Percentage Distribution of Different Migration Streams of NEI Out-Migration to the Different Destinations in the Country (1991-2011)
Appendix 3: Percentage Distribution of Reasons for Migration for NE Out-Migrants Across the Census Periods of 1991-2011
Appendix 4: Percentage Distribution of the Preferred Destinations for NEI Out-Migrants Across the Census Period of 1991-2011
Appendix 5: Results of Exploratory Factor Analysis
Appendix 5.1: KMO and Bartlett's Test.
Appendix 5.2: Scree Plot of Factors and Eigen Values
Appendix 5.3: Initial Communalities and Communalities After Extraction
Appendix 5.4: Total Variance Explained
Appendix 5.5: Component Matrix of the Variables
Appendix 5.6: Rotated Factor Matrix of the Variables
Appendix 5.7: Naming of Factors Loaded Under Each Factor
Appendix 6: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Between the Age Group of 15-34 years: India's Scenario (Census 1991-2011)
Appendix 7: Percentage Distribution Workers and Non-workers Between the Age Group of 15-34 years: NEI Scenario (Census 1991-2011)
Appendix 8: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2001 India Scenario
Appendix 9: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2001 NEI Scenario
Appendix 10: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2011 India's Scenario
Appendix 11: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2011 NEI Scenario
12 Missing Fluvio-Social Dynamics of a Braided River: A Study on a Select Stretch of the Brahmaputra in Assam
Review of Literature
Study Areas
Data and Methodology
Materials
Methods for River Bank Erosion and Accretion
CMZ
HMZ
Erosion Buffer (EB)
Land Use Land Cover (LULC)
Field Survey
Results and Discussions
Variation in the Course of the Brahmaputra
Erosion and Accretion
Between 1972 and 1980
Between 1980 and 1990
Between 1990 and 2000
Between 2000 and 2010
Between 2010 and 2022
Between 1972 and 2022
River Channel Migration Historic Migration Zone (HMZ)
Bank Line Migration
Erosion Buffer Zone
Channel Migration Zone
Impact on Land.
LULC
Land Use Transformation
Land Loss
Socio-Political Impact
Migration
Livelihood Insecurity
Issues Related to Identity
13 Discourse on Migration and Human Trafficking from Manipur: Coercion vs Voluntary
Locating the Economy of Human Trafficking
Part IV Betwixt and Between Belonging and Unbelonging
14 The Fragmented 'Indigenes': Travails of Becoming Bengali in Modern Assam
Partition, Loss of Indigeneity, and Closure
'One and Indivisible'
'Shattered Dreams'
Closure of History
Politics of Refuge
Centralizing the Bengalis
A World of Their Own
Civic Nationalism
15 Citizenship, Inheritances, and Borderlands: Assam's Entangled Histories
Historicising Borderlands: The Entangled Inheritances of Assam.
Geographies of Citizenship: Deconstructing Assam
Fragmented Homogeneities: Brahmaputra Valley and the National Perception of Assam
Citizenship in Isolation: The Unique Case of Barak Valley
The Unwanted Citizen: Chars and the Elusive Promises of Citizenship
Misplaced Singularities: Reconceptualising Assam
Conclusion: Writing About Borderlands
16 Forest, Land, and Peasant: The Case of Doyang Reserved Forest in Assam, India
Locating the Doyang Reserved Forest
Assessing the Peasant in Literature
State, Forest Land and the Peasants
State, Border and the People
State, Ethnicity and the Peasantry
Making of Borders and Boundaries in the Three Sets of Relationships
17 Making a 'Peter the Great' in an Imperial Frontier: Educating 'Natives' and Introducing English Language and Roman Script in Manipur
Educating the Raja, Educating the 'Natives'.
Introducing English Language and the Roman Script.

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