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020			_a9780198099116
082			_a305.809541 MIS
100			_aMisra, Udayon
245		0	_aIndia`s north-east : identity movements, state, and civil society
250			_aNew Delhi
260			_aOUP
260			_b2014
260			_c0
300			_a366p.
520			_aIn many senses, India's Northeast has been an enigma to the rest of the country. Beginning with the earliest challenge of the nation-building process in India, this highly diverse and multicultural region has, through its multiple identity movements and militant separatism, thrown up several major issues which have resulted in re-drawing the parameters of the Indian nation-state and helped to re-define the idea of nationalism itself. This selection of essays/commentaries, written over some three decades, analyze the complex processes of the nation-state's engagement with the demands for autonomy/independence raised by the small nationalities of the northeastern region but also focuses on the contradictions and new equations that have been emerging both within these movements and in the State's response to them. The factors behind the rise of ethnic nationalist assertions, the role of civil society, the rise of exclusivist politics and the question of citizens' rights are other issues that figure prominently in the discussions.
650			_aPolitics and Government
942			_cB _2ddc