Northeast India

Herausgeber: Baishya, Amit; Saikia, Yasmin

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Produktbeschreibung

It explores the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India. It employs a variety of perspectives and approaches - historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories with a new outlook.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107191297
• ISBN-10: 1107191297
• Artikelnr.: 48064485

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction Yasmin
Saikia and Amit Baishya; Part I. Contemporary Politics and Issues of
Definition: 1. Solidarity, visibility, and vulnerability: 'Northeast' as a
racial category in India Duncan McDuie-Ra; 2. India and its Northeast:
another big push without a take-off? Sanjib Baruah; 3. (Un)natural
disasters and the role of the state in the Brahmaputra Valley Assam Mitul
Baruah; Part II. Creating Presence: 4. Bonnie guest house: fieldwork and
friendship across borders Bengt G. Karlsson; 5. The Muslims of Assam:
present/absent history Yasmin Saikia; 6. Ichthyonomics, or fish and humans
in the time of floods: rethinking speciation in Assam Sean Dowdy; Part III.
Knowing through Experience: 7. Dismembered lives: narrating history's
footnotes in Aulingar Jui Amit R. Baishya; 8. Freedom and frustrated hopes:
assessing the Jadonang movement, 1917-32 Arkotong Longkumer; 9. Celebrating
a new 'New Year' in Tripura: space, place and identity politics R. K.
Debbarma; Part IV. Rethinking Politics: 10. Difficult loves: purity and
hardship Dolly Kikon; 11. Politics of difference in the Northeast: a
feminist reflection Papori Bora; 12. Robes, rivers and ruptured spaces:
hydro-power projects in west Arunachal Pradesh Swargajyoti Gohain;
Glossary.