Beyond counter-insurgency: breaking the impasse in Northeast India/
edited by Sanjib Baruah.
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- viii, 383 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Oxford India paperbacks .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-369) and index.
1. Introduction / Sanjib Baruah -- PART 1. STALEMATED CONFLICTS: WHAT COST?: 2. Resenting the Indian State: For a new political practice in the Northeast / Ananya Vajpeyi ; 3. When was the postcolonial?: A history of policing impossible lines / Bodhisattva Kar --
PART 2. NATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 4. From loin cloth, suits, to battle greens: Politics of clothing the 'Naked' Nagas / Dolly Kikon ; 5. Writing terror: Men of rebellion and contemporary Assamese literature / Rakhee Kalita ; 6. Narrative agency and thinking about conflicts / Nandana Dutta --
PART 3. DISCOURSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION: 7. Northeast problems as a subject and object / Pradip Phanjoubam ; 8. Preparing for a cohesive 'Northeast': Problems of discourse / Bhagat Oinam ; 9. Agency of rioters: A study of decision-making in the Nellie Massacre, Assam, 1983 / Makiko Kimura --
PART 4. MAKING PEACE, MAKING WAR: INDIA'S PEACE POLICY: 10. The Mizo Exception: State-society cohesion and institutional capability / M. Sajjad Hassan ; 11. Peace sans democracy?: A study of ethnic peace accords in Northeast India / Samir Kumar Das ; 12. Hills-Valley divide as a site of conflict: Emerging dialogic space in Manipur / H. Kham Khan Suan --
PART 5. BREAKING THE IMPASSE: 13. Just development: A strategy for ethnic reconciliation in Tripura / Subir Bhaumik ; 14. Grounds for democratic hope in Arunachal Pradesh / Betsy Taylor ; 15. Rethinking Delhi's Northeast India policy: Why neither counterinsurgency nor winning hearts and minds is the way forward / Bethany Lacina.
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Counterinsurgency -- India, Northeastern. Insurgency -- India, Northeastern -- History Democracy -- India, Northeastern -- History India, Northeastern -- Politics and government