STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Unheeded hinterland: identity and sovereignty in northeast India, by Dillip Gogoi

Dr. Alex Waterman was a Visiting Fellow at MP-IDSA, New Delhi. He is currently Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK.Click here more detailed profile
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  • January 2017
    Volume: 
    41
    Issue: 
    1
    Book Review

    Partly the result of a political and physical isolation compounded by decades of conflict in the region, Northeast India is often viewed through the prism of security studies, institutional performance or developmental governance. While important contributions in themselves, a state-centric focus often overlooks the complexity of the causes and dynamics. It ignores the consequences of regional societal forces’ articulation of identity, nationalism, separatism and sovereignty that can shape political boundaries in the region, thus overlooking the salience of subaltern narratives.

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