State vs. Society in Northeast India: History, Politics and the Everyday

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: State, Region and Border
Chapter 1 Social Imaginaries, Minorities and the Postcolonial History of a Region
Chapter 2 Colonial State and Annexation of Cachar in a Strategic Frontier of British Bengal
Chapter 3 Spatializing Nation at the Border District of Arunachal Pradesh
Part II: Memory, Ethnicity and Civil Society
Chapter 4 Public Spaces and the Politics of Remembering in Northeast India
Chapter 5 The Socio-spatial Politics of ‘Tribal’ and ‘Non-tribal’ in Meghalaya
Chapter 6 Interrogating the ‘Civil Society’ in Naga Society
Part III: Security, Emergency Laws and Protest
Chapter 7 Politics of Counter-insurgency and the Expansion of Security Bureaucracy
Chapter 8 Emergency Law in Nagaland and State’s Classification of People as Suspect
Chapter 9 Encountering the State in Manipur: A Political History of Women in Public Space
Part IV: Development, Trans-nationality and Accessibility
Chapter 10 The Trajectory of ‘Development’ in a Resource Frontier
Chapter 11 Development Schemes and How People Engage with the State in Manipur
Chapter 12 Informal Political Networks, Dalals and Local Governance in Assam
About the Editor and the Contributors
Index