Beyond counter-insurgency : breaking the impasse in Northeast India / edited by Sanjib Baruah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baruah, Sanjib.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counterinsurgency.

Politics and government.

India, Northeastern--Politics and government--20th century.

India, Northeastern.

Counterinsurgency--India, Northeastern.

Northeastern India.

Physical Description:

viii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Sanjib Baruah

PART 1. STALEMATED CONFLICTS: WHAT COST?: 2. Resenting the Indian State: For a new political practice in the Northeast / Ananya Vajpeyi ; 3. When was the postcolonial?: A history of policing impossible lines / Bodhisattva Kar

PART 2. NATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 4. From loin cloth, suits, to battle greens: Politics of clothing the 'Naked' Nagas / Dolly Kikon ; 5. Writing terror: Men of rebellion and contemporary Assamese literature / Rakhee Kalita ; 6. Narrative agency and thinking about conflicts / Nandana Dutta

PART 3. DISCOURSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION: 7. Northeast problems as a subject and object / Pradip Phanjoubam ; 8. Preparing for a cohesive 'Northeast': Problems of discourse / Bhagat Oinam ; 9. Agency of rioters: A study of decision-making in the Nellie Massacre, Assam, 1983 / Makiko Kimura

PART 4. MAKING PEACE, MAKING WAR: INDIA'S PEACE POLICY: 10. The Mizo Exception: State-society cohesion and institutional capability / M. Sajjad Hassan ; 11. Peace sans democracy?: A study of ethnic peace accords in Northeast India / Samir Kumar Das ; 12. Hills-Valley divide as a site of conflict: Emerging dialogic space in Manipur / H. Kham Khan Suan

PART 5. BREAKING THE IMPASSE: 13. Just development: A strategy for ethnic reconciliation in Tripura / Subir Bhaumik ; 14. Grounds for democratic hope in Arunachal Pradesh / Betsy Taylor ; 15. Rethinking Delhi's Northeast India policy: Why neither counterinsurgency nor winning hearts and minds is the way forward / Bethany Lacina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-369) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780195698763

0195698762

OCLC:

317362499

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