Is There a Pan-North-East Identity and Solidarity?

Economic and Political Weekly, 47(36), 84-85

2 Pages Posted: 22 Mar 2017

Date Written: September 08, 2012

Abstract

India’s north-east is often generalised, misunderstood and understudied. Its cultural diversity, decades of armed insurrections, ethnic violence and identity politics have intrigued scholars for the past few decades. To many, the u­nder­standing of some major tribes of the r­egion – their lifestyle, world view and aspirations, and putting them t­ogether as an analytical category and clubbing the whole north-eastern states as “north-east” – seems to snugly fit their analysis. The generalised presumptions, time and again, overlook the diversity of the region. In contrast, each state has described itself as a “mini India”.

Suggested Citation

Haokip, Thongkholal, Is There a Pan-North-East Identity and Solidarity? (September 08, 2012). Economic and Political Weekly, 47(36), 84-85, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2938384

Thongkholal Haokip (Contact Author)

Jawaharlal Nehru University ( email )

Nelson Mandela Marg
New Delhi, Delhi 110067
India

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