Northeast India: A Place of Relations

Cover
Northeast India
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Boxes
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	‘Home’ but not at home
	Situating the history of contemporary scholarship on Northeast India
	Privileging human relationship: Northeast India in our perspective
	Organization and structure
	Endnotes
	References
Section I: Contemporary Politics and Issues of Definition
	1. Solidarity, Visibility and Vulnerability: ‘Northeast’ as a Racial Category in India
		Introduction
		Categorical dilemmas
		Contemporary dynamics
			Frontier to corridor
			Urbanization
			Migration
		Northeast as a racial category
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Endnotes
		References
	2. India and its Northeast: Another Big Push without a Take-Off?
		The new big push: what is being done?
		The results
		Thinking beyond the imaginary of development
		Endnotes
		References
	3. (Un)natural Disasters and the Role of the State in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
		Introduction
		The state question
		The Majuli hazardscape
		Governance through infrastructures
			Accumulation of capital
			The ‘shadow state’
			The hazardscape (re-)produced
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
Section II: Creating Presence
	4. Bonnie Guest House: Fieldwork and Friendship across Borders
		Friendship
		Fieldwork
		Borders
		Places
		Acknowledgements
		Endnotes
		References
	5. The Muslims of Assam: Present/Absent History
		The search for Muslim history
		The possibility of togetherness: morom and sneh
		The (invisible) Muslim Assamese: dissenting against disunity
		The living story of the Muslim
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	6. Ichthyonomics, or Fish and Humans in the Time of Floods: Rethinking Speciation in Assam
		The logic of the fish (in Mayong)
		An ichthyonomic perspective
		The time of floods
		Undifferentiated water, containers and sieves
			Containers
			Sieves
		What jati is (in Mayong)
		Conclusion
		Glossary of Assamese and other non-English terms
		Endnotes
		References
Section III: Knowing through Experience
	7. Dismembered Lives: Narrating History’s Footnotes in Aulingar Jui
		Endnotes
		References
	8. Freedom and Frustrated Hopes: Assessing the Jadonang Movement, 1917–1932
		The Kuki Rebellion (1917–1919)
		Reassessing colonial policy
		The making of a kingdom: Naga Raj
		Prophecy as history
		Narrative of freedom
		Jadonang’s confessions
		Frustrated hopes
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
			Archive
				1. British Library, London
				2. Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
				3. School of Oriental and African Studies, London
				General Bibliography
	9. Celebrating a New ‘New Year’ in Tripura: Space, Place and Identity Politics
		Introduction
		Making Tripura a homeland
		Inventing a new ‘New Year’
		Endnotes
		References
Section IV: Rethinking Politics
	10. Difficult Loves: Purity and Hardship
		Introduction
		My heart will be empty without you
		Impure love: the politics of purity
		Locating markers of purity
		Pure histories and impure memories
		I love you: embracing the foreign
		Difficult love
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	11. Politics of Difference in the Northeast: A Feminist Reflection
		The paradox of women’s participation in politics in the Northeast
		Gender in the constitution of North-eastern difference
		The gendered victim of human rights
		The politics of motherhood and struggle for women’s rights
		The subject of feminist politics in the Northeast
		Endnotes
		References
	12. Robes, Rivers and Ruptured Spaces: Hydropower Projects in West Arunachal Pradesh
		Tawang
		Travelling ideologies
		Selling development
		Ruptured places
		Endnotes
		References
Glossary
About the Contributors
Index