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Hardcover. Zustand: New. This book makes a comprehensive study of development in North East India focusing on the Autonomous District Council (ADC) areas of Meghalaya under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India. Spread over five chapters, this book begins with a larger perspective of colonial anthropology that justified the rule of difference in North East India and related the rule of difference with the colonial modality of development which drained out the incredible resources from this region. After transfer of power, territorial autonomy for the tribes of Assam, not their development, engaged the state builders and the regional leaders. In this light, this book tracks the roadmap of the Autonomous District Council under the Sixth Schedule in Meghalaya and makes critical reflections upon the developmental functions of the institution. This book then re-examines the developmental role of ADC under market economy which found a new geography of opportunity in the ADC areas of Meghalaya and unveils the emerging challenges of development and social opportunity of the people living in the ADC areas of Meghalaya.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Terrorism seen through a gendered lens/Suchhanda Ghosh. Tripura 2. Peace initiative and development in Tripura/Suchintya Bhattacharjee. 3. The Changing nature of terrorism in Tripura/Mahadev Chakravarti. 4. Prospect of development in the context of terrorism an assessment of the regrouping project in Tripura/Malabika Das Gupta. Mizoram 5. Bru Mizo conflict and peace initiative in Mizoram/Pranay Jyoti Goswami. Manipur 6. Violation of human rights and peace initiative in Manipur/Bimola Devi. 7. Insurgency and human rights in Manipur/Binarani Devi. 8. Women as promoters of peace and harmony in Manipuri Society/O. Sareeta Devi. 9. Insurgency and Muslim women in Manipur/Karam Kunjani. 10. Mera Paibis as human right activists/Rita Mairembam. 11. Youths and insurgency in Manipur/Lamabam Seityabati Devi. Assam 12. Problems and prospects of the peace process in Assam/P.C. Dutta and Y. Deb. 13. Women in the peace process in North East India/Dolly Phukon. 14. Women in terrorism the case of Kokrajhar District/Sujata Bhadra. Meghalaya 15. Gender inequality in the Khasi society a human rights issue/Gita Pyal Ronnie Wahlang and Sabrina Bamon. Nagaland 16. Indo Naga Conflicts and Peace Process/Ninghorla Zimik Tuikhar. 17. Polity Peace and terrorism the Nagaland Scenario/Xevier P. Mao. 18. Peace process and changing face of Nagaland/Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. Arunachal Pradesh 19. Terrorism in Arunachal Pradesh its impact on development/R.P. Bhattacharjee. Index. Both militant terrorism and state terrorism are phenomenally increasing in the northeastern region of India. The versions and standpoints on violation of human rights are highly polarized. The two parties (the terrorists and the state) blame each other for such violation. The overall terrorist scenario let loose both by the militants and by the army has stalled the civic life of millions of people in this region. The casualties happen with the civilians militants as well as with the army personnel. Terrorism let loose by the terrorists and the arm forces has also exposed serious democratic deficit leading to denial of human rights in this region. The role of the civic initiatives and activists for restoration of human rights in this region is of special significance. The selected articles presented in a national seminar on the above theme organized by North East India Council for Social Science Research Shillong are being published in this book. The contributors dealt with conceptual issues and presented narratives of human rights violation caused both by the state and by the arm forces. This book also provides useful insights to the problem and is extremely useful to the enforcement agencies diplomats activists and human rights practitioners. 268 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The young woman and consciousness at the grassroot level/Rama Basu. 2. Conflict of contours The changing power structure in traditional tribal societies of North East India/Gorky Chakraborty. 3. Traditional power structures of North East India some reflections/Asok Kumar Ray. 4. Empowerment of women and the concept of development/Xavier P. MAO. 5. Women empowerment and development/Amalesh Banerjee. 6. Evolution of political governance in Arunachal Pradesh/S.B. Chakrabarti. 7. Changing power structure in the Arunachal Tribal Societies/R.P. Bhattacharjee. 8. Changing power structure a study of the Wanchos of Arunachal Pradesh/R.P. Athparia. 9. Mobile political system in a traditional tribal society/Bibhash Dhar. 10. Traditional Paite Society with special reference to women/H. Kamkhenthang and T. Chingzaman. 11. Paite women in the changing power structure a case study in Churachandpur/Rita Mairembam. 12. The Meitei women power/J.B. Ganguly. 13. Position power and functions of women in Kuki Society of Manipur/Binarani Devi. 14. Socio economic aspects of Self Help Group in Manipur an empirical study/N. Tejmani Singh. 15. The role of Kabui (Rongmei) women in the changing power structure in the Valley of Manipur/K. Kunjani Devi. 16. Tangkhul women in the changing power structure/Ninghorla Zimik. 17. The changing power structure among the Ao Nagas an appraisal/B. Francis Kulirani G.C. Ojah and G. Baruah. 18. Relevance of tradition and place of women in changing Naga Society/Chandrika Singh. 19. Tribal woman in a changing power structure in the traditional society of Nagaland/Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. 20. Political development in Sikkim since merger/A.C. Sinha. Index. The present book highlights the dynamics of power relations affecting the multitudinous tribal structures in the northeastern region. There are two broad themes in this book the state and the tribal power structures constitute one theme and gender and power constitutes the other. The book contains 20 research papers with an editorial note on these themes. The research papers are based on current and rigorous empirical studies made by the regional scholars and cover the state scenarios of Manipur Nagaland Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. The dynamics of power structures has been viewed from the traditional colonial liberal and post liberal frameworks. The book has both epistemological and empirical values and is highly helpful to the current social science researchers academicians and policy planners in this region and beyond. 288 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The book begins with a critique of the inter-relationship between community, state and market and then looks into the cross-border transactions in North-East India with special focus on the Tripura-Bangladesh border. It problematises the spatial identity of Tripura in pre and post-partition era and the implications of partition and border-making to the cross-border communities of Tripura and Bangladesh. It reflects on trade transactions between India and Bangladesh and more significantly, on informal cross-border trade, social transactions and people-to-people contact across the border. This book also captures the community anxieties emerging from land boundary institutions and the issues of conflict and development in the cross-border space of Tripura-Bangladesh. In conclusion the book captures the dynamics of community inter-dependence and opposition in the post-partition condition in the Tripura and Bangladesh.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgement. Preface. 1. Introducing Northeast India. 2. A Roadmap of the Look East Policy. 3. Regional Cooperation. 4. Governance and Security. 5. Contemporary Macro-Economic Trends. 6. The Trade Scenario. 7. A Critique of the Look East Policy. Index. Re-scaling of space has been an inseparable part of the capitalist development process. While the search for newer markets necessitates capitalism to transcend space, it simultaneously also requires spatial fixes for each regime of accumulation. It is a multi-scalar dialectical process which scholars have ascribed as annihilation of space by time and space-time compression. Among other factors, the interplay of both these processes related to time and space results in conditions for construction and re-construction of space in the form of territories. The contemporary phase of globalization is also a part of this longue duree. Re-scaling of space in the form of territories has also been an inherent part of Northeast India. From the perspective of the state there has been varying justifications e.g. whereas revenue generation along with trade has been the sole criterion for the colonial state, it has been politico-administrative for the post-colonial Indian state. Till the 1950's, the region was viewed within the anthropological paradigm. In the 1960's, the Indo-Chinese War (1962) marked a shift of the region towards security paradigm. The 1970's marked another shift towards political paradigm. This continued till the 1980's. From the late 1980's onward NER entered into a development paradigm under neo-liberal globalization. Now, the question of trade which was hitherto stymied and ignored during the post-colonial period, gained momentum with the launch of Look East Policy and eventual North Eastern Region Vision 2020. Northeast India under these two policies was officially made a major player in trade and commerce across the frontier and even beyond to South and Southeast Asia. This offered an 'arrowhead' role to NER in the matter of regional and cross-regional trade.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Theory and history of land privatization. 3. Institutional dispossession of communal land. 4. The patterns of change. 5. Land and identity. 6. Whither communal land! The book sketches a road map of privatisation, accumulation and dispossession of communal land in the tribal areas of North East India from pre-colonial times to the neo-liberal era. Spread over five chapters, this study unfolds with the saga of privatisation of communal land in the backdrop of a larger theoretical and historical canvas. It deal with the different institutional modes of privatisation, accumulation and dispossession of communal land, the changes in land use and cropping patterns, the changes in land relations and the land-based identity of the tribal community as a result. The conclusive chapter makes a broader reflection of the grand narrative of privatisation, accumulation and dispossession of communal land in North East India.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. This book is a road map of Northeast India from colonial race theory to the economic liberalization regime, both of which demeaned the people of the region and appropriated its natural resources. The legacy of race theory survived in the post-colonial regime until the economic liberalization opened up the fused society of Northeast to a refracted society through the mechanism of market economy. This book makes an overall critique of both colonial anthropology and market economy in Northeast India. The subject being very vast, scope of this study is restricted to five chapters. The first two chapters deal with 'colonial race theory and its application Northeast India; the third and fourth chapters deal with ' the basic contours of Liberalization' and 'Liberalization-led Market Economy in Northeast India' and the fifth chapter makes a challenge to social policy in the Northeast India under market Economy'.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Early State Formations in Northeast India CONTENTS Foreward vii Preface ix 1. Theories of Early State Formations 1 2. Assam 26 3. Manipur 50 4. Tripura 73 The narrative of early state formations is a globally emerging multidimentional research field that delves into the critical cotours of social formations by knitting together the myriad of micro issues resulting from the case studies for collective theorical understaning. Friedrick Engels The Origin of the Family, Private Property and State, (1872) and Lewis Henry Morgan s Ancient Society (1907) are among the early theorizations on the origin of state, while The Early State (1978) edited by Henri J.M. Claessen and Peter Skalnik propelled the state formation studies on a global scale. Engels underlined the rise of private property as the defining point of the beginning of state formation and Morgan noted that the ancient social organizations were mostly founded on the Gentes, Phratries and Tribes and that the gentile organization, as distinct from the political society, was the oldest and the most widely prevalent institution of humankind. Claessen and Skalnik enumerated the minimum requirements like territory, size of population, social stratification, citizenship, centralization, autonomy, productivity and ideology to become a state. The global experience of the selective case studies made by Claessen and Skalnik revealed that the legitimization of authority was basically linked to ideology of the state.

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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents 1. Literacy and female work participation of tribal women in Dhemaji District of Assam/Mainu Goswami B.S. Mipun and P.C. Sharma. 2. Girl child labour practice a study in Morigaon District of Asom/Dipali Das Talukdar. 3. Position of the Mishing women of Majuli Island in Assam/Moon Moon Medhi. 4. Health condition of the girls of Tea Garden workers of Dibrugarh/Gulrukh Begum. 5. A study on the female Tea Workers of Dibrugarh/Mayuri Goswami and Rekha Das. 6. Empowering women through SHG a study in Bejera Block of Kamrup District Assam/Rupa Das Borbora. 7. Status of women in the Boro Community/Rani Hazarika Kakati and Kabita Boro. 8. A comparative status of Assamese and Neo Assamese Muslim women of Morigaon District Assam/Nilofar Jasmin. 9. Socio political role of Karbi women/Ranima Saikia and Jyoti Saikia. 10. Educational status of Tai Khampti women/Bandana Mohan. 11. Health condition among the Tai Khamti Girls of Namsai Arunachal Pradesh/Munmi Gogoi. 12. Gender development in Arunachal Pradesh A study/R.P. Bhattacharjee. 13. Female workforce participation in Arunachal Pradesh patterns and determinants/Aparimita Mishra. 14. Women's Empowerment through education in Nagaland/Manoj Kumar Singh. 15. Panoramic view of women in today's context/Saphimosha W. Blah. 16. Violence against women in Manipur/O. Sareeta Devi. 17. Manipuri Women emancipation and empowerment/Bimola Devi. 18. Gender and market women of Manipur/Urmila Kshetrimayum. 19. Female emancipation and social development the Muslim women in Manipur/Karam Kunjani. 20. Allocation of gender role in the Manipuri Society/L. Kunjeswori Devi. 21. Women's education literacy and empowerment A case study of Manipur/N. Tejmani Singh and Th. Jitendra Singh. 22. Aged Tangkhul women of Ukhrul an anthropological study/Dorcas Riyaophi Ramsan. 23. Pig rearing a trajectory of women empowerment in Sekmai Village in Imphal West District/Tongjam Johila Chanu. 24. The changing role and status of educated Angami women/Koseno. 25. Women empowerment and education in tribal society of Churachandpur/Rita Mairembam. Index. The issue of women emancipation is of vital significance in the contemporary discourses on development. Though the concepts of emancipation and empowerment differ substantively this book brings out close connectivity between the two concepts and empirically upholds that the two concepts constitute each other. In Northeast India the role of women is quite high in the socio economic spheres whereas their social status is low. This Dilemma is significant in this region. It creates a contradiction between self identity of the women community and collective identity of them in the larger society. This book gives detailed information about the current trends and major issues of women emancipation and empowerment in the Northeastern region of India. The approach of the book is empirical with current database. The articles in this book reflect the views of the scholars of the region. The book not only upholds the micro level issues pertaining to women community of this region but also points at different trajectories for their social and economic well being. This book is an important addition to the literature on women studies in this region and will be of high use to the academic community social activists women agencies policy makers and to development administrators. 240 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents 1. Women emancipation a policy perspective/Asok Kumar Ray. 2. Voluntary action and women's emancipation/Tapan Kumar Chattopadhyay. 3. Whose voice Whose concern Politics of representing women/Indrani Choudhury. 4. Female emancipation in the context of North East India/Gouri Bhattachariyya. 5. The gender concerns in North East India and the relevance of social movements/Saswati Biswas. 6. Career for women in North East India an overview/Surojit Sengupta. 7. Crime against woman a problem of female emancipation/Umesh Ch. Saharia and Deepali Bhattacharjee. 8. Emancipation of women and sustainable social development/Saifun Nessa. 9. Problems of single women a comparative analysis/Lutfun Rsaul Saikia. 10. Gender issues and development in North Eastern Region of India/P.C. Dutta and B.C. Pradhan. 11. Marriage motherhood and career salience young women in contemporary society of Assam/Rituparna Bhattachariyya Sharma. 12. Empowerment education social development women of Asom/Ritimoni Bordoloi. 13. Political empowerment of women in Assam/Pranay Jyoti Goswami. 14. A situational analysis of status of girls in Assam and other north eastern states/Bandana Bhuyan. 15. Gender gap and state of women in north east the myth of equality/Susmita Das. 16. Women emancipation through SHG's the case of Bodoland/Sujata Bhadra. 17. Women in the emerging urban labour market a study on North East India/Shyamalendu Chatterjee. 18. Women emancipation and development N.E. Perspective/Amalesh Banerjee. 19. Process of empowerment of women a comparative study of Tripura and Meghalaya/Bhola Nath Ghosh and Utpal Kumar De. 20. Empowerment of women through academic leadership/Daisy Borah Talukdar. 21. Education for all special reference to Sikkim elementary education for women/Rama Basu. 22. Status of women focus Mizoram trends and perspectives/Lalhriatpuii. 23. Women emancipation a way for removing gender discrimination/Th. Binarani Devi. 24. SHGs and socio economic emancipation of women in Manipur/L. Seityabati Devi. Index. This book raises the conceptual issues of women emancipation vis a vis women empowerment focusing on the women of the Northeast India. There is epistemic difference between the two concepts and therefore a distinction is made between the two. Empowerment in this book is however seen mainly as a trajectory for women's emancipation. The approach of the book is empirical with a realistic conceptual base. This book highlights the roles of the state civil society community based organizations and the women agencies towards the wider cause of emancipation of women in the northeastern region and reflects upon the different initiatives towards the goal of emancipation of the women of the northeast. Some of the articles in this book give useful recommendations that might be of strategic significance for the emancipation of the poor and the disadvantaged women in Northeast India. This book is an important addition to the literature on women studies in this region and has great use value to the academic community social activists women agencies policy makers and to development administrators. 344 pp.

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Understanding exclusion and inclusion. 2. Public policy and the Indian social scene. 3. How inclusive is rural development? 4. Intellectual property: whose property? 5. The political economy of inclusive growth. Index. Inclusive development appeared as a metropolitan discourse particularly in the recent past. The discourse on the subject in India however started even later. Unlike the West no serious academic discourse on the subject took place in India before it came as a new development policy and a paradigm. This concept first caught the attention of the policymakers and then of the academic community. A major landmark of inclusive development in India was the Eleventh Five Year Plan. Since then the concept became one of the major concerns of not only the policymakers but also of the academic community. This book is an addition to the inclusive development discourse in India. It presents a critique of the political economy of inclusive development and views public policies and the Indian social scene, rural development, intellectual property rights from the larger perspective of concept and theories of inclusion and exclusion. This book ends with an overall critique of inclusive development. It unpacks the political economy implications of inclusion and exclusion both as a normative theory and as a political economy. The central purpose of this book is to demystify the concept in the Indian socio-economic context and to sensitise the academic community and policy makers about the criticalities of the inclusive paradigm of development. (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. This book gives a comprehensive description of India's social scene based on the author's own studies and experiences about the subject earned from travelling in different parts of the country. India being the largest of all the states in South Asia, her social scene is an interesting and important area of study. This study has focused on the cultural heritage of India, caste, tribal and gender and the social policy issues pertaining to those. It has also focused on agriculture and food security scenario in India and on the indigenous knowledge system which have a greater bearing on the Indian social scene. This book ends with a brief conclusive note. This book is written in a reader-friendly manner and is spread over seven chapters which might be useful to the student community, researchers and the public administrators.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Editorial notes. Contributors. 1. Population migration and North East a historical perspective/Prabin Baishya. 2. On modes of unmaking the nation cross border migration and ethnic conflicts in Eastern and Northeastern India/Samir Kumar Das. 3. Poverty economic development and population dynamics in North East India/Raj Kumar Sen. 4. Demographic dynamics in NES/Amalesh Banerjee. 5. Population imbalance in the North East Region/B.B. Kumar. 6. Employment and unemployment patterns in Northeastern Region a state wise comparison/Sonali Chakraborty. 7. Population growth environment and population education in North East India/A. Henia. 8. Socio cultural factors and population growth in North East Region of India/Paulavi Das. 9. Fertility performance of the Karbis of four villages of Kamrup District Assam/D.M. Misra. 10. Population boom in the North East and economic growth/Sukhendu Mazumder. 11. The ethnic conflicts and their consequences in the North East/Bibhas Ranjan Choudhury. 12. Population dynamics and the disabled persons an exploratory note on North East India/S.B. Chakrabarti. 13. Population dynamics in North East India significant trends of immigration with special reference to Assam/Nripen Dhar. 14. Multilingual population of Assam some relevant issues/G.C. Sharma Thakur. 15. Redistribution and cultural transformation among the Deoris of Assam/Sujata Deori Niranjan Das and B.S. Mipun. 16. Migration and population growth in Assam/Pranjal Sarma and Protim Sharma. 17. Economic history of Nepali Migration and socio cultural relationship in Assam/Monimala Devi and Devashis Bose. 18. Impact of migrating population on the Guwahati City/Babli Choudhury. 19. Urbanization and slum problems in Assam special reference to Silchar Town/Pranay Jyoti Goswami. 20. Growth of population its impact on rural and urban economy special reference to Assam/Bobby Mahanta and Luit S. Mahanta. 21. Demographic profile of Manipur an overview/N. Tejmani Singh and Th. Jitendra Singh. 22. Influx of migrants and youths of Manipur/Th. Binarani Devi. 23. Population growth and quality of life issues and challenges (A case of Manipur)/Asha Thokchom. 24. Population and pattern of land utilization in Manipur/Th. Premita Devi. 25. Population explosion and its impact on the society reference to Manipur state/R.K. Hellen Devi. 26. Population pattern of Garo Hills/Anjan Jyoti Borah. 27. RCH Population Policy and political economy/Asok Kumar Ray. 28. Influence of social sector expenditure on human development/Hiranmoy Roy and Kingshuk Adhikari. 29. Literacy and population special reference to Meghalaya/Sumana Paul. 30. Mid day meal programme and its impact in Tura Region on West Garo Hills/Govinda Prasad Bhandari. Index. Population question in the northeast region assumed critical dimension from the 1950s onward. This happened mainly because of the externally induced demographic growth in this region. Many movements took place in the mean time in the region to address the issue. Yet over the last four decades this question remained unresolved. From social policy angle the states of this region exhibited failed state syndrome. This led to both quantitative and qualitative crises of growing population in the region. In this backdrop this book gives very useful insight to the population dynamics in the region from interdisciplinary angles. The articles published in this book are well researched and touch upon the historical aspects larger issues of population growth in the region state level and micro level case studies and upon the larger policy issues pertaining to population growth and human development in this region. This book immensely contributes to the existing literature on the subject and contains strong academic value. This book is also useful for the policy makers and policy researchers in and on this region. 360 pp.

Contents Preface Introduction 1 Early social and political formations 2 Colonization 3 Northeast nation state and republic 4 Northeast and globalization 5 Whither Northeast Bibliography IndexThe Northeast India has become a renewed concern for the contemporary social scientists working on this region This book is one that shows similar concerns It revisits the trends of changes in Northeast India from the premodern colonial post-colonial to the postmodern times and critiques the very direction of change that happened in the region In the post-liberal regime the Northeast India has come to face stiffer challenges that has led the region towards a future essentially market driven and made the region economically and socially more vulnerable This book intends to provoke larger debates among the academic community policy makers and development practitioners in Northeast India jacket 304 pp.

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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Revisiting methodology and approaches. 2. The North East and political economy of globalisation. 3. Community question and institutional reforms. 4. A tryst with democracy. Conclusion. Select Bibliography. Index. This book is a revisit of Northeast India in the era of globalisation. Author have raised two major questions in this book one is epistemological and the other is related to political economy. The author tried to address these questions through revisiting four major thematically relevant areas designed and arranged in sequential chapters. The first chapter deals with the changing approaches and methodology of social science research (that largely addresses the epistemic question) the second chapter deals with the political economy in northeast region under globalisation the third chapter deals with community questions and institutional reforms and the fourth chapter deals with tryst with democracy in northeast under globalisation. The last three chapters address the criticalities of the political economy of globalisation in this region. The approach of the book is both holistic and critical. This book will be able to draw the attention of the serious thinkers and social scientists working on this region. 568 pp.

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