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This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border making in the Northeast India.
List of contents
Foreword by Virginius Xaxa
Introduction: Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State
Kedilezo Kikhi, Amiya Kumar Das and Piyashi Dutta
1. ‘We the People’: Interrogating Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State—A Northeast Perspective
K.C. Baral
2. Who in Northeast India are Indigenous?
H. Srikanth
3. What Can a Liberal State Reasonably Expect of Its Citizens? Some Reflections in a Liberal Democracy
Ake Sander
4. ‘Bharat Mata’ and Its Imagination: Multiplicity and Divergence in the Imagination of the Nation in the Multi-Ethnic Situation
Partha Pratim Borah
5. Indigeneity, Indigenous Feminism and Legal Pluralism: Emerging Women’s Resistance and a Critique of Gender Theme in Ethnographic Narratives of Northeast India
N.K. Das
6. Divided Under the Sun: Hill and Non-Hill Identity in Mizoram
N. William Singh
7. Land as Foundation of Identity: The Case of the Brus in Mizoram
Melvil Pereira and Furzee Kashyap6 Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State: Perspectives from India’s Northeast
8. Land Rights, Identity and Customary Laws Amidst Angami and Konyak Nagas: A Comparative Cross-Referencing
Kedilezo Kikhi and Jagritee Ghosh
9. Assamese and Its ‘Others’: Making of a School Language in a Multilingual Society
Nirmali Goswami
10. Rights and Justice to Tea Tribes of Assam: Colonial and Post-colonial Narrative
Soumen Ray and Lalhriatchiani
11. The Line of Difference: Indigeneity and Ethnicity in Post-colonial Assam
Prafulla Kr. Nath
12. Nationalism and Social Exclusion: The Making of Ethnic Identity Movements in Assam
Ransaigra Daimary
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Kidelezo Kikhi is Chair Professor, Dr. Ambedkar Chair, and Professor at the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Assam.
Amiya Kumar Das is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at Tezpur University, Assam.
Piyashi Dutta has PhD in Sociology from Tezpur University, Assam, and is currently affiliated with the Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Noida, as Assistant Professor.
Summary
This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border making in the Northeast India.
