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Insurgency in India’s Northeast provides a systematic analysis of
every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within
a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing primarily on
the postcolonial period. This book presents a parsimonious analytic
narrative involving a rich sequential account of the historical
evolution of Mizo, Naga, Meitei, and "ethnic Assamese" identities
from precolonial to colonial to postcolonial times. Avoiding
essentialist or primordialist arguments, the chapters in the book
demonstrate how ethnic/(sub)national identities are dynamic and
malleable phenomenon, not immutable natural givens. In particular,
it argues that the postcolonial Indian state has attempted to
integrate these ethnic/sub-state national groups into the Indian
Union through a combination of democratic
accommodation/consociationalism and hegemonic/violent control,
strategically designed to encapsulate their evolving (sub) national
identities into the overarching state-sponsored Indian nationality.
Through this book, readers will gain a rich understanding of the
dynamics of ethnicity/ nationality and the nation/state-building
process in postcolonial India. It will be of interest to
researchers in the fields of Asian studies, ethnicity, nationalism,
separatism, security studies, border studies, and international
relations.
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