In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India [Hardcover]

In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state's response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life.In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state's response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life. Offering an ethnographic underview, Jelle Wouters illustrates an 'insurgency complex' that reveals how embodied experiences of resistance and state aggression, violence and volatility, and struggle and suffering link together to shape social norms, animate local agitations, and complicate inter-personal and inter-tribal relations in expected and unexpected ways. The book locates the historical experiences and agency of the Naga people and relates these to ordinary villagers' perceptions, actions, and moral reasoning vis-a-vis both the Naga Movement and the state and its lucrative resources. It thus presses us to rethink our views on tribalism, conflict and ceasefire, development, corruption, and democratic politics.List of AbbreviationsPreface1. Introduction: The Shadows of Naga Insurgency2. Clan, Village, Tribe, and Naga Nation3. Ceasefire as Politics: Factions, Taxes, and National Workers4. Seeing the State: Violence, 'Seduction', and Neo-Tribal Developmentalism5. Corruption and the Moral Economy of State Resources6. The State as a Resource: The Quest for Frontier Nagaland7. Performing Democracy in Nagaland8. Epilogue: Life Beyond the Shadows of Naga InsurgencyBibliographyEndnotesIndexAbout the AuthorJelle J.P. Wouters,Senior Lecturer, Royal Thimphu College, BhutanJelle J.P. Wouters studied anthropology in Amsterdam, Oxford, and Shillong. Presently he is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. Before that, he taught at Sikkim Central University and Eberhard Karls University. Over the past yel£]