Geographies of Difference: Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies [Hardcover]

This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state, displacement and development, debates over natural resources, violence, notions of body and belonging, movements, tensions and relations, and strategies, struggles and narratives that frame discussions on the region.

Drawing on current and emerging research in Northeast India studies, this work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, human geography, sociology and social anthropology, history, cultural studies, media studies and South Asian studies.

List of Figures. Preface Introducing Geographies of Difference: Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Remembering Bianca Son: A Brief Overview of Her Scholarly Life. Introduction: Northeastern Research Entanglements PART 1: HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS 1. Reading F?rer-Haimendorf in Northeast India 2. The Role of Informants in the Construction of the Zo as the Chin, Lushai and the Kuki of Burma and of India 3. Sutured landscapes: Making of an Imperial Frontier in Tripura (18481854) 4. Portrait of a Place: Reflections about Fieldwork from the Foothills of Northeast India 5. Ethnographic Study and Cultural Production in Sikkim PART 2: POLITICS OF LAND AND MATERIAL RESOURCES 6. Hydro-dollar Dreams: Emergent Local Politics of Large Dams and Small Communities 7. Violence, Al³Z