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Naga Movement In Manipur: Its Genesis And Impact On State Politics
Over the decades, the Naga integration movement has predictably served to catalyze and consolidate oppositional democratic politics along ethnic lines and furthering hill-valley divide in Manipur. This trend has exacerbated in the last decade as NSCN-IM seems to seek a negotiating leverage from the deepening...
Identity Politics And Social Exclusion in India’s North-East: The Case For Re-Distributive Justice
An Apatani lady of Arunachal Pradesh.
Abstract:
This paper examines how various brands of identity politics since the colonial days have served to create the basis of exclusion of groups, resulting in various forms of rifts, often envisaged in binary terms: majority-minority; ‘˜sons of the soil’-immigrants;...
India’s Look East Policy
File Photo... ASEAN+India Summit 2004
Analytical perspectives from the political, economic and military lenses
Post-Cold War, India has an improved interest in South East Asia. India has to compete against a formidable rival, China, on many fronts. ERIC KOO PENG KUAN analyses what factors make the Look...
Nationalist Ideology, Militarization And Human Rights In North-East
The deployment of armed forces in the region, the oppressive laws which legitimized it, the judicial scrutiny of such laws and the ways media represents the people’s movements in this part of India are shaped by the dominant nationalist ideology, which always treat the ethnic minorities with ‘˜suspicion’....
India’s North-East Policy: Continuity And Change
Introduction
Northeast India is the home of numerous ethnic nationalities. B.G. Verghese (2004: 280) describes the region as ‘another India, the most diverse part of a most diverse country, very different, relatively little known and certainly not too well understood, once a coy but now turbulent...
Land Rights, Autonomy And Conflict In Manipur
Introduction
The North-East in general and Manipur, in particular, has been in the throes of a violent conflict in recent times. The momentum gained by the Naga political movement in the state has revived and intensified strife between the Nagas and the Meiteis. The conflict can be understood in the...
