State vs. society in Northeast India: history, politics and the everyday

Contributor(s):

Sharma, G. Amarjit [Editor]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Sage studies on India's North EastPublication details: Sage Publications India 2021 New DelhiDescription: xliii, 307 p.: ill. Include bibliography and indexISBN:

9789391370374

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DDC classification:

320.09541 S3

Summary: State vs. Society in Northeast India: History, Politics and the everyday looks at a state as an entity that does not operate strictly as a rational, legal and administrative organization. State in the Northeast region is very much shaped by the social, economic and political practices on the ground. Using archival and ethnographic evidence, the book questions notions of region and border as fixed spaces. A state, in the process of governing society, produces itself through formal and informal practices on the ground, and the book argues that Northeast India is a significant site for studying this. It engages with conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges thrown up by the political experiences of ordinary people in the Northeast. The book discusses everyday legal discourse, official public memory, development discourse, cases of becoming marginalized, resistance and ways of networking with the authorities. The objective is to understand the various ways in which states and societies engage with each other and to look at layers of historical interconnections that inform much of contemporary Northeast politics. The book will especially be of interest to scholars in politics, history, sociology and anthropology. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/state-vs-society-in-northeast-india/book279946

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Table of Contents

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

State vs. Society in Northeast India: History, Politics and the everyday looks at a state as an entity that does not operate strictly as a rational, legal and administrative organization. State in the Northeast region is very much shaped by the social, economic and political practices on the ground. Using archival and ethnographic evidence, the book questions notions of region and border as fixed spaces. A state, in the process of governing society, produces itself through formal and informal practices on the ground, and the book argues that Northeast India is a significant site for studying this. It engages with conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges thrown up by the political experiences of ordinary people in the Northeast. The book discusses everyday legal discourse, official public memory, development discourse, cases of becoming marginalized, resistance and ways of networking with the authorities. The objective is to understand the various ways in which states and societies engage with each other and to look at layers of historical interconnections that inform much of contemporary Northeast politics. The book will especially be of interest to scholars in politics, history, sociology and anthropology.

https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/state-vs-society-in-northeast-india/book279946

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