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Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and experiences between people and cultures, the human and the non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this volume explore the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India from within. The volume employs a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches - literary, historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and an analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories in the Northeast with a new outlook. In the study, the region emerges as a place of new happenings in which there is the possibility of continuous expansion of the horizon of history and issues of current relevance facilitating new voices and narratives that circulate and create bonding in the borderland of South, East, and Southeast Asia.
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Section I: Contemporary Politics and Issues of Definition
1. Solidarity, Visibility and Vulnerability: ‘Northeast’ as a Racial Category in India
Northeast as a racial category
2. India and its Northeast: Another Big Push without a Take-Off?
The new big push: what is being done?
Thinking beyond the imaginary of development
3. (Un)natural Disasters and the Role of the State in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Governance through infrastructures
The hazardscape (re-)produced
Section II: Creating Presence
4. Bonnie Guest House: Fieldwork and Friendship across Borders
5. The Muslims of Assam: Present/Absent History
The search for Muslim history
The possibility of togetherness: morom and sneh
The (invisible) Muslim Assamese: dissenting against disunity
The living story of the Muslim
6. Ichthyonomics, or Fish and Humans in the Time of Floods: Rethinking Speciation in Assam
The logic of the fish (in Mayong)
An ichthyonomic perspective
Undifferentiated water, containers and sieves
Glossary of Assamese and other non-English terms
Section III: Knowing through Experience
7. Dismembered Lives: Narrating History’s Footnotes in Aulingar Jui
8. Freedom and Frustrated Hopes: Assessing the Jadonang Movement, 1917–1932
The Kuki Rebellion (1917–1919)
Reassessing colonial policy
The making of a kingdom: Naga Raj
1. British Library, London
2. Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
3. School of Oriental and African Studies, London
9. Celebrating a New ‘New Year’ in Tripura: Space, Place and Identity Politics
Making Tripura a homeland
Inventing a new ‘New Year’
Section IV: Rethinking Politics
10. Difficult Loves: Purity and Hardship
My heart will be empty without you
Impure love: the politics of purity
Locating markers of purity
Pure histories and impure memories
I love you: embracing the foreign
11. Politics of Difference in the Northeast: A Feminist Reflection
The paradox of women’s participation in politics in the Northeast
Gender in the constitution of North-eastern difference
The gendered victim of human rights
The politics of motherhood and struggle for women’s rights
The subject of feminist politics in the Northeast
12. Robes, Rivers and Ruptured Spaces: Hydropower Projects in West Arunachal Pradesh
Northeast India
：A Place of Relations
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