TY - BOOK AU - Baruah, Sanjib, ed. TI - Beyond counter-insurgency: breaking the impasse in Northeast India: SN - 0198078978 U1 - 355.02185416 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi: PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Counterinsurgency -- India, Northeastern KW - Insurgency -- India, Northeastern -- History KW - Democracy -- India, Northeastern -- History KW - India, Northeastern -- Politics and government KW - India, Northeastern N1 - 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 ER -