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”.
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