State vs. Society in Northeast India

History, Politics and the Everyday
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-93-91370-37-4
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 353 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: SAGE Studies on India's North East

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 evidences, 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 state and society 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharma, G. Amarjit

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: State, Region and Border
Social Imaginaries, Minorities and the Postcolonial History of a Region - Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Colonial State and Annexation of Cachar in a Strategic Frontier of British Bengal - Santosh Hasnu
Spatializing Nation at the Border District of Arunachal Pradesh - Sherin Ajin
PART II Memory, Ethnicity and Civil Society
Public Spaces and the Politics of Remembering in Northeast India - Jangkhomang Guite
The Socio-spatial Politics of ‘Tribal’ and ‘Non-Tribal’ in Meghalaya - Oyindrila Chattopadhyay
Interrogating the ‘Civil Society’ in Naga Society - Rashi Bhargava
PART III Security, Emergency Laws and Protest
Politics of Counterinsurgency and the Expansion of Security Bureaucracy - M. Amarjeet Singh and R. K. Sanayaima
Emergency Law in Nagaland and State’s Classification of People as Suspect - Chubatila
Encountering the State in Manipur: A Political History of Women in Public Space - L. Basanti Devi
PART IV Development, Trans-nationality and Accessibility
The Trajectory of ‘Development’ in a Resource Frontier - G. Amarjit Sharma
Development Schemes and How People Engage with the State in Manipur - Tanmoy Das
Informal Political Networks, Dalals and Local Governance in Assam - Amiya Kumar Das
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sharma, G. Amarjit
G. Amarjit Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Special Centre for the Study of North East India (SCSNEI), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India. He has previously taught political studies at Nambol L. Sanoi College, Bishnupur District, Manipur (2009–2013). He has been associated with a summer institute on Critical Global Humanities at the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), Brown University, USA (2011). He was associated with the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway, and collaborated on a project titled ‘Making Women Count for Peace’. He has published papers in the journals such as Economic & Political Weekly, The Eastern Anthropologist, The Oriental Anthropologist and Man in India. He has also contributed chapters in edited volumes on critical studies in politics, modernity and ethnic processes, cultural practices, identity politics and other subjects. He is primarily interested in the political economy of development, tribal and ethnic studies and anthropology of state and society.