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    In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast

    In the Name of the Nation by Baruah, Sanjib;

    India and Its Northeast

    Series: South Asia in Motion;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Stanford University Press
    • Date of Publication 4 February 2020

    • ISBN 9781503611283
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages296 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 425 g
    • Language English
    • 84

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    Short description:

    In the Name of the Nation offers a much-needed contemporary history of India's troubled Northeastern region.

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    Long description:

    In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "the Northeast." In the Name of the Nation offers a critical and historical account of the country's troubled relations with this borderland region. Its modern history is shaped by the dynamics of a "frontier" in its multiple references: migration and settlement, resource extraction, and regional geopolitics. Partly as a result of this, the political trajectory of the region has been different from the rest of the country. Ethnic militias and armed groups have flourished for decades, but they coexist comfortably with functioning electoral institutions. The region has some of India's highest voter turnout rates, but special security laws produce significant democracy deficits that are now almost as old as the Republic. That these policies have been enforced to foment national unity while multiple alternative conceptions of the "nation" animate politics in the region forces us to reflect on the very foundations of the nation form. Sanjib Baruah offers a nuanced account of this impossibly complicated story, asking how democracy can be sustained, and deepened, in these conditions.



    "In this book, Sanjib Baruah provides scholars and students up-to-date facts, new revelations, astute analysis, and basic background for understanding history and politics in northeast India. This is also essential reading for anyone concerned with the quality of sovereignty in India, where national state territorialism is rife with contradictions, ambiguities, militarism, and conflicting allegiances."?David Ludden, New York University

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction:

    1. The Invention of Northeast India

    2. Partition's Long Shadow: Nation and Citizenship in Assam

    3. Development and the Making of a Postcolonial Resource Frontier

    4. The Naga Conflict: Ceasefire Politics and Elusive Peace

    5. Discourse of Insurgency and the Pedagogy of State Violence

    6. The Strange Career of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act

    Conclusion:

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