Ethnicity in North East India

Author: Sengupta Sarthak  

Publisher: Gyan Publishing House‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9788121251044

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9788121212168

Subject: B82 Ethics ( Moral Philosophy )

Keyword: 伦理学(道德哲学)

Language: ENG

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In the present-day world, the study of ethnicity has been a major concern of anthropology, and other branches of social sciences. Ethnicity is not a simple and isolable social observable fact, rather interconnected to many other multifaceted societal issues. Probing and understanding ethnicity requires numerous dimensions as it operates and channelise through various ways and means. Ethnicity in North East India is a collection of eleven original essays offered by renowned teachers and experienced researchers to acquaint wide readers about the dynamic nature of ethnicity in North East India to understand the mechanism according to which the character of its momentary commonality becomes clearly visible. The book will be interest to scholars, policy makers and policy analysts, and students of social sciences particularly those concerned with North East India

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Contents

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1.   Ethnicity: Some Conceptual, Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

2.   Ethnicity and Nation-building in India: A Critical Appreciation with Special Reference to North East India

3.   Customary Laws and Tribal Identity in North Eastern India

4.   Identity Construction Through Fission: The Case of the Desi, Paliya and Rajbansi Paliya of Southern North Bengal

5.   Socio-political Dimensions of Ethnic Movement in Assam

6.   Ethnicity and Identity Formation of the Mishings of Assam

7.   Aspiration for an Ethnic Identity—Evolved or Created? A Question Asked in the Context of Assam

8.   Genesis of the All India Gurkha League and its Impact on the Nepalese Identity Movement in Assam

9.   The Problem of Ethnicity: Some Observations with Reference to Manipur in North East India

10.   Supra Tribalism: Search for a New Way in Manipur

11.   Ethnicity in Nagaland

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