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Beyond Counterinsurgency
Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India
Sanjib Baruah
400 pages
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215x140mm
978-0-19-569876-3
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Hardback
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05 March 2009
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- Critical essays on various facets of insurgency
- Offers new ways of understanding Indias policy thinking on the Northeast
- Significant addition to Northeast literature
In recent years there has been a significant reorientation in India's policy towards its Northeast region. Yet, Indian policy thinking has been insulated from the virtual intellectual revolution in the last one decade to study armed civil conflicts and ways to manage, resolve, and transform them. This volume lays emphasis on the term 'rethinking' and offers new ways of understanding the conflicts, and of ways to resolve them.
The chapters discuss wide-ranging issues which include the multilayered nature of the conflict in the Northeast, and how democratic politics and the world of armed rebellions intersect in complex ways in this region. An analysis of the
Naga war and its nation-building project is discussed. How the Northeast figures in postcolonial India's national imagination, how Assamese society engages with the term 'terrorist', and how state-society conflicts are muted in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation, and an alternative vision of development in Arunachal Pradesh have also been discussed.Readership: Students and scholars of politics, and history, in addition to institutions of policy planning, defence, and strategic studies.
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Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Science, Bard College, New York Contributors:
Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York and Honorary Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; Subir Bhaumik is BBC's East India Correspondent based in Calcutta; Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta; Nandana Dutta is Professor of English, Gauhati University; M. Sajjad Hassan is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer working for the Government of Manipur; Rakhee Kalita is Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Cotton College, Guwahati; Bodhisattva Kar is Fellow in History, Centre
for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Dolly Kikon is a doctoral student at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Makiko Kimura is Research Associate, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo; Bethany Lacina is John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Graduate Fellow, Stanford University and Research Associate, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo; Bhagat Oinam is Associate Professor of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Pradip Phanjoubam is the editor of Imphal Free Press, an English daily published from Imphal, Manipur; H. Kham Khan Suan is Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; Betsy Taylor is a cultural anthropologist with the Alliance
for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Theory, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; Ananya Vajpeyi is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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