Radical politics and governance in India's North East: the case of Tripura /
Harihar Bhattacharyya.
- xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Introduction: radical politics and governance in India's North East 1 Marxism and the national/ethnic question: theory and practice in India 2 Ethnic diversity and ethnic radicalism in India's North East 3 Institutionalization of ethnic radicalism in India's North East: power sharing, participation and governance 4 Roots of radical politics in Tripura: princely State; demographic, social and economic transformations 5 The ethnic radicalism in Tripura: Reang rebellion 1943-45 and the birth of an ethnic identity 6 Origins of the communist movement in Tripura: Jana Mongal Samity, Jana Shiksha Samity and Paraja Mondal 7 Dialectics of radical ethnic nationalism and left radicalism in Tripura, 1948-51: communist influence over the tribal mass mobilization 8 Radical ethno-nationalism in Tripura, 1948-50 9 Left radicalism turned parliamentary an institutionalized in Tripura: appropriation of tribal ethno-nationalism 10 The rise and decline of the TUJS inTripura: radical ethnic challenge to the left 11 Marxists in power in Tripura: sub state level instutionalization of tribal identity 12 Marxists in power in Tripura: delimmas of governance since the 1990s