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Troubled Diversity : The Political Process in Northeast India

by Sandhya Goswami
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780199453337
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: Oxford UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: INR 845.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Process / General and Asia / South / General

The Northeast has evolved as the 'other' in India's nationalist paradigm. This otherness is the result of the region's racial composition and its historical positioning, cultural connectivity, communication, and economic linkage. A site of radical identity politics, the Northeast has various communities with striking differences in origin, religion, and language that give rise to ethnic conflicts and contestations for power, with each group perceiving the other as a threat to its existence.

This work looks at the politics of diversity and identity in the Northeast. The concept of 'diversity' can be used as a unifying mechanism in the post-colonial nation-state through which identities can get homogenized; ethnic identities and cultures can be manipulated for political or economic advantage; and ethnic violence can have disastrous consequences like extortion, rape, abduction, death, and violation of human rights.

Offering a comprehensive analysis that includes theoretical perspectives and a comparison with the political problems in Jammu and Kashmir, this book is a significant study of identity crises in minority communities.

Sandhya Goswami is Professor, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University. She is also a member of the Lokniti Programme of Comparative Democracy under the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Her principal research interests include democracy, election studies, and social movements.

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