in G. Ram (ed.). Exploring Social Margins: Human Development in India’s North East. Guwahati: Eastern Book House, 2017. pp. 270-280. In a state where there exist a number of ethnic groups which are mostly antagonistic, often parallel and competing in their aspirations and supported by each of their armed groups rebelling against the India state demanding various levels of autonomy, […]
» Read morein N. Haokip & M. Lunminthang (eds.) The Kuki Society: Past, Present and Future. New Delhi: Maxford, 2011, pp. 190-202. The division of British India and the then Burma in 1937, the hardening of international borders since 1947 and the subsequent disruption of old trade routes by the colonial rulers, India’s import substitution economy after 1947 deprived the trans-border communities […]
» Read morein R. Padhi (ed.). Current Tribal Situation: Strategies for Planning, Welfare and Sustainable Development. Delhi: Mangalam Publications, 2013, pp. 85-93. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1621524 The post-Cold War period witnessed a spurt in ethnicity and ethnic nationalism. This often leads to ethnic mobilisation and movements, and even to the extent of extremism. The Northeastern states of India were no exception to this […]
» Read morein Jelle JP Wouters (Ed.). Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 175-198. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863461.003.0007 This chapter examines the dynamics of ethnopolitics in Manipur particularly how the state fallsinto ‘ethnocracy trap’ and thus perpetuate ethnocratic regimes. Rather than looking into thedemand for internal autonomy within the sub-national state by minority groups, the ethnocratic […]
» Read morein Amita Singh, et. al. (eds.) Development and Disaster Management: A Study of the North Eastern States of India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2018, 281-299. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8485-0_19 This paper examines the role of community based organisations in resilience building within the North Eastern states of India. There is a plethora of indigenous practices and value systems in the largely egalitarian societies of the […]
» Read morein D.L. Haokip and N. Kipgen (eds.). Against the Empire: Polity, economy and culture during the Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919. New Delhi, Routledge, 2020, pp. 118-136. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003000655-10 This chapter looks into the economic measures taken by the British to crush the morale of the Kukis and bring the uprising under control, as well as the resilient indigenous economy of the Kukis during […]
» Read morein J. Guite & T. Haokip (eds.). The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919: A Frontier Uprising against Imperialism during the First World War. London/New Delhi: Routledge, 2018, 93-117. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429431098-4 At the imperial margin of British India, the Assam Rifles and Burma Military Police fought a resistance war by the Kukis between 1917 and 1919 for the colonial government. In this ‘largest series of military […]
» Read morein Atul Sarma, Ashok Pankaj and Antora Borah (eds.). Social Sector Development in North-East India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2020. pp. 361-380. This chapter discusses the provisions in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian constitution for the formation of autonomous regions and regional councils in districts with multiple scheduled tribes, and stresses on the formation of such regional councils for […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip in Rakhee Bhattacharya (ed.). Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on India’s North East. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2019. This chapter has laid down a critical alternative to understand ‘development through trade’ by relocating India’s Northeast in its highly debated Act East Policy. The Northeast which was ‘a meeting ground, a transit point and the southern trials […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip in Jelle J.P. Wouters and T.B. Subba (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Northeast India, New Delhi: Routledge, September 2022, pp. 434-439. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003285540-72 Writing on hill politics in Northeast India at the time when most of the hilly areas of the region were still demanding statehood Shibanikinkar Chaube contends “that until the British advent, the notion of territorial […]
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