Blisters on their Feet

Tales of Internally Displaced Persons in India's North East
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3653-4
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Reihe: SAGE Studies on India's North East

This book is a comprehensive study on India's North East where violence, development and natural disasters that lead to eviction and displacement of `citizens` within a country produce more Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) than refugees. Dwelling upon this debate, the book discusses the two major sources of displacement, conflict and development, and presents a compendium of case studies drawn from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Tripura—the four worst-affected states of the region. The Introduction to the book highlights the silenced aspects of displacement, drawing upon the implications of the case studies presented and bringing them to the centre of any future theoretical enquiry into the society and politics of the region.

Blisters on their Feet: Tales of Internally Displaced Persons in India's North East provides contrasting perspectives on what is often considered a simple answer to displacement, and views the phenomenon as a logical culmination of a package of policies initiated and undertaken in the region, particularly in the age of globalization. The case studies display rare insight, human rights sensitivity and commitment, sans any theoretical pretensions.

The book serves as a useful key in placing the North East in the newly emergent discourse on displacement and brings it to the forefront of the public agenda. It offers important insights for policy makers and analysts, research scholars, human rights activists, lawyers, developmental specialists, students and socially concerned citizens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, Samir Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction - Samir Kumar Das

I. ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Socio-economic Portents of Displacement of Indigenous Peoples - P K Mandal and M C Behera

Proposed Subansiri Hydel Project: A Case Study of Potential Displacement - Timo Riba

Displacement and Refugee Issue in Arunachal Pradesh - P K Panigrahi

A Case Study of the Sulungs (Puroiks) - Sristidhar Dutta and Tana Showren

Internally Displaced Persons of Changlang District - K O Sebastian

II. ASSAM
Environment-induced IDPs: An Appraisal - Nazmin Banu Islam

River Bank Erosion Affected People in the Kamrup District - Aparna Goswami and Baneswar Das

Erosion-induced Displacement in Nagaon, Morigaon, Barpeta, Dhubri and Goalpara Districts

Conflict and Displacement: A Case Study of the Election Violence in 1983 - Jyotirmay Jana Makiko Kimura

The Displaced Santhals of Western Assam - Biswajit Chakrabarty

IDPs of Western Assam: A Study of Conflict-Induced Displacement - Subhas Barman

Nobody`s People: Muslim IDPs of Western Assam - Uddipana Goswami

The Displaced Reangs of Hailakandi District - Abdul Mannan Mazumdar and Bornali Bhattacharjee

III. MANIPUR
Kuki-Naga Conflict and its Impact on the Zeliangrong People - K Gailangam

A Study of Ethnic Conflicts in the Hills, 1992-1993 - Ksh Bimola Devi

IDPs of Manipur Hills - Koijam Shethajit

A Case Study of the May 1993 Riot Victims of Purum Pangaltabi - S Mangi Singh

A Note on the Internally Displaced Persons - R K Ranjan Singh

IDPs and the Problems of their Education - L Leiren Singh

IV. TRIPURA
Internally Displaced Persons in Tripura: Past and Present - Mahadev Chakravarti

Development and Displacement: A Case Study of the IDPs - Satyadeo Poddar

Gumti Hydel Project and the Displaced Persons - Malaya Banerjee

Landownership and Occupational Patterns of IDPs (1999-2001): A Case Study - Ruma Sahu and Amitabha Sinha
Internal Displacement: A Man-made Tragedy - Sukhendu Debbarma

The Case of Urabari Mohanpur Block - Chandrika Basu Majumder

V. THE NORTH EAST
Birth of a Problem - Sudhir Kumar Singh and Sristidhar Dutta

Paradigm of Development: A Critique - Deepak Mishra

Waiting for Elusive Resettlement and Rehabilitation? - Monirul Hussain

Challenges Ahead - Subir Bhaumik

Development, Displacement, and the Right to Life - Walter Fernandes and Sanjay Barbora

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Das, Samir Kumar
Prof. Samir Kumar DAS is presently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal. A Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (now on lien) he is a member and an Honorary Senior Researcher of the Calcutta Research Group (CRG). Besides being the Coordinator of the UGC-DRS Programme on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program) based in New York. He specializes in and writes on ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy and lectured widely in premier academic institutions in the USA, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and many other countries on various assignments.