• ISBN13: 9788126907083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia & Atlas
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 26, 2007
• Pages: 2386
• Original Price: INR 4750.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

This 5-volume, encyclopaedic study of India’s North-East is the result of the Author’s 11 years of service extended over three tenures in the region, followed by 6 years of library research after his retirement. Being the first of its kind, given its contents and sheer size, over 2,500 pages, it is a unique book. Writing on the North-East is not an easy exercise, given its diversity (ethnic, racial, religious and linguistic), size, history and geography. If India is microcosmic world, the North-East is microcosmic India. Of the 5,653 communities in India, 653 are tribal of which the 213 are indigenous to the North-East. Of the 213, 111 are found in Arunachal Pradesh alone. Illumined by an equally amazing linguistic diversity, it is home to 325 of the 1,652 languages spoken in India. Yet again, North-East’s total population of 3,84,95,089 (2001) constitutes 2.69 per cent of India’s 1,02,70,15,247, while its area of 2,55,088 sq km is 7.75 per cent of India’s 32,87,263 sq km.

Col Ved Prakash was commissioned into the famed SIKH Regiment of the Infantry, the foremost fighting arm of the Indian Army in 1957. His first posting was to 3 SIKH, then operating in the Naga Hills when the Naga insurgency was on the upswing. Subsequently, in his career, he served twice in the North-East, once as a Commanding Officer of an Assam Rifles battalion (1970s) operating against the Mizo insurgents then ravaging the eponymous Hills, and then as Commander of a Movement Control Group Headquarters (1980s). During 11 years in the North-East spread over three tenures, he got a chance for personal interaction with various tribal groups and to observe their social mores, to study the history and geography of the region, and got acquainted with its myriad problems. During a 2-month sabbatical, he visited all the World War II hot spots and places of historical and tourist interest of the North-East India. This is the way this major book was born. Col Ved Prakash also served in Jammu and Kashmir, including two tenures in the frosty areas of Ladakh. He took part in the 1962, 1965 and 1971 wars, and retired in 1989. Besides his distinguished military career, he has to his credit three books, namely Intelligent Ways to Enter the NDA (1995), The Samba Spy Scandal (1998), and Indian Army in Sri Lanka (2001). His books have been well received by the readers.

• VOLUME–1

• Musings: Immediate and Distant
• BOOK ONE : THE NORTH-EAST
• 1. North-East: Races, Tribes and Migrations
• HISTORY OF THE REGION

• PART 1 : KAMARUPA

• 2. Ancient Kamarupa (Assam: Prehistoric Times to 4th Century AD)
• 3. Kamarupa (4th to 12th Century AD)
• 4. Successor States of Kamarupa (13th to 15th Century AD)
• 5. Pragjyotisha-Kamarupa: Polity, Economy and Society

• PART 2 : THE AHOM PERIOD

• 6. Ahom Rule: First Four Centuries (1228 AD to 16th Century AD)
• 7. Ahom Rule: Last Two Centuries (17th Century to 1826 AD)
• 8. Ahom Polity and Administration

• PART 3 : THE BRITISH PERIOD

• 9. Assam under the British Rule (1826-1947)
• 10. Heroes and Freedom Fighters of North-East
• NORTH-EAST: MISCELLANY
• 11. Economy of the Region: A Perspective
• 12. Religious Denominations in the Region
• 13. Arts and Culture of the North-East
• 14. Frontier Policies of Various Regimes
• 15. Militancy-Insurgency in North-East: A Quagmire or a Challenge?
• 16. North-East Today

• VOLUME–2

• BOOK TWO : ASSAM
• 17. Assam: A Waxing and Waning Entity
• 18. Assam: A Plethora of Autonomy Movements
• 19. ULFA: Virulent Insurgency (Did it build on
• the past sentiments?)
• 20. Bodoland Movement and Bodo Militancy
• 21. Foreigners and Outsiders in Assam
• A Bugbear or a Curse?
• 22. Hill Tribes of Assam
• 23. Plains Tribes of Assam
• 24. Assam Today
• 25. Destination: Assam

• VOLUME–3

• BOOK THREE : ARUNACHAL PRADESH
• 26. Arunachal Pradesh: A Profile
• 27. Tribes in Western Arunachal
• 28. Tribes in Central Arunachal
• 29. Tribes in Eastern Arunachal
• 30. Buddhist Tribes of Arunachal
• 31. The McMahon Line
• 32. Ripples in the Idyll
• 33. Destination: Arunachal
• BOOK FOUR : MANIPUR
• 34. Manipur: A Kingdom in History
• 35. Queen Empress Vs Tikendrajit, Prince of Manipur
• 36. Manipur: Insurgent Violence

• VOLUME–4

• 37. Naga Tribes of Manipur
• 38. Non-Naga Communities of Manipur
• 39. Manipur: A Troubled State
• 40. Destination: Manipur
• BOOK FIVE : MEGHALAYA
• 41. Meghalaya: History and Struggle for Identity
• 42. Tribes of Meghalaya
• 43. Meghalaya: A Profile
• 44. Destination: Meghalaya
• BOOK SIX : MIZORAM
• 45. Lushai Tribe of Mizoram
• 46. Non-Lushai Tribes of Mizoram
• 47. Mizos: Insurrection to Constitutionalism
• 48. Mizoram: A Profile
• 49. Destination: Mizoram

• VOLUME–5

• BOOK SEVEN : NAGALAND
• 50. Nagas: A Brief Historical Perspective
• 51. Secessionist War to Statehood
• 52. Tribes of Nagaland
• 53. Nagaland: A Profile
• 54. Destination: Nagaland
• BOOK EIGHT : TRIPURA
• 55. Tribes and Tribal Vs Non-Tribal Dissonance
• 56. Secessionist and Militant Movements in Tripura
• 57. Tripura: Princely State to the State of the Union
• 58. Destination: Tripura
• Appendix A
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• List of Illustrations
• Index