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The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India.
List of contents
Northeast India: An Introduction
1. Ahom Legacy
2. Animism
3. Assam-Bangladesh Border
4. Biodiversity
5. Brahmaputra
6. Buddhist Studies
7. Christian Medical Missions
8. Cities
9. Clan
10. Colonial Frontiers
11. Commons and Wildlife Conservation
12. Community Language Research
13. Conquest and Colonization
14. Cross-Border Physical Connectivity
15. Cultural Citizenship
16. Customary Law
17. Dance Cultures
18. Delimitation
19. Democracy and Elections
20. Developmentalism
21. Development-Induced Displacement
22. Domesticating Paddy
23. Dreams
24. Ethnomusicology
25. Ethno-Regionalism
26. Fifth Language Family
27. Food
28. Foothills
29. Frontier Baptists
30. Frontier Feudalism
31. Geomorphology
32. Global Wars in Colonial Frontier
33. Government Statistics
34. Healing
35. Himalaya as Method
36. Hinduism
37. Hindutva Futures
38. Human-Elephant Worlds
39. Hunting
40. Hydropower
41. Indigeneity
42. Indigenous Archaeology
43. Infrastructure
44. Inner Line
45. Insurgency
46. Inter-State Border Disputes
47. Language and Culture
48. Language and Migration
49. Language Contact and Convergence
50. Literary Traditions
51. Look East Policy
52. Materiality of Religion
53. Megalithic Traditions
54. Migration
55. Multiple Partitions
56. Multispecies Studies
57. Museums
58. Names and Naming
59. Nation
60. Oral Narratives
61. Popular Culture
62. Postcolonial Other
63. Resource Frontier
64. Sacrifice
65. Shifting Cultivation
66. Sixth Schedule
67. Species Extinction
68. Sylhet Referendum
69. Syntactic Typology
70. Tea
71. Territoriality
72. Tibeto-Burman Languages
73. Transboundary Spaces
74. Trans-Himalayan Trade
75. Travellers, Sojourners, and Wayfarers
76. Tribe
77. Upland Languages
78. Urbanisation
79. Violence
80. Women and Labour
81. Youth Activism
About the author
Jelle J.P. Wouters is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. He holds an MPhil (with distinction) in social anthropology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in anthropology from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Prior to joining Royal Thimphu College, he taught at Sikkim University, India, and was a visiting faculty at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, under the 'Excellence Initiative' of the German Research Foundation. He has published about political lifeworlds, democracy and elections, insurgency and violence, kinship and identity, capitalism and resource-extraction, and social history of Northeast India.
Tanka B. Subba is a retired Professor from the Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Sikkim University from 2012 to 2017. He has received awards like the Homi Bhabha Fellowship (Mumbai), Dr Panchanan Mitra Lectureship and R.P. Chanda Centenary Medal for 2015 (Asiatic Society, Kolkata), DAAD Guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, and Baden-Wuerttemberg Fellowship at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg. He was a member of the Academic Councils of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, and Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, and served as a member of the Advisory Boards of the National Museum of Mankind, Bhopal, Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, and the INTACH, New Delhi.
Summary
The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India.
