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To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. The work deconstructs dominant political narratives surrounding sovereignty, identity, and conflict in the region, particularly focusing on the complexities of the Naga and Assam movements. Highlighting the implications of state violence and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Baruah's analysis reframes Northeast India as central to understanding Indian politics, pushing for new perspectives on sovereignty and moral agency.

This volume is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on the region known as Northeast India. A renewed focus on the region in the past two decades has witnessed publications on sociopolitical and historical aspects endeavouring to understand the current dynamics of the region. However, when it comes to electoral political analysis of India as a country, Wouters rightly points out that the Northeast region is left out p.

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Perhaps parliamentary democracy and its entanglements with regional sociopolitics are less understood. The different ways in which power relations, decision-making, consensus building and cosmopolitics play out in the Northeast are perhaps embedded in the chequered history of the region, which is an intertwining of the flow and movement of populations and their changing relationships alternating between reciprocation and subjugation, and animosity and rebellion.

The history of the region is of various kingdoms and the movement of people from Bengal to the cultivable land around the Brahmaputra river p. The Burmese invasion of Assam and the Anglo-Burmese treaty of Yandabo in became a turning point in the history of the region. The 'Northeast' gradually became a British colonial resource frontier with the discovery of oil, coal, timber and the establishment of tea plantations.

The serene mountains on one side and the culture of guns and drugs on other- the two very different faces of Northeast India play a perplexed role. Besides, Northeast shares Naturally, the north-eastern people who inhabit the periphery with the border realities are constantly negotiating with the pluralities of many nations within a Nation.