Insurgency in India's Northeast: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist...

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Jugdep Chima (Hiram College, USA) Pahi Saikia (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Insurgency in India's Northeast

Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance

Jugdep Chima (Hiram College, USA), Pahi Saikia (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Regional studies; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Politics & government; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics

Insurgency in India’s Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing primarily on the postcolonial period.

This book presents a parsimonious analytic narrative involving a rich sequential account of the historical evolution of Mizo, Naga, Meitei, and ""ethnic Assamese"" identities from precolonial to colonial to postcolonial times. Avoiding essentialist or primordialist arguments, the chapters in the book demonstrate how ethnic/(sub)national identities are dynamic and malleable phenomenon, not immutable natural givens. In particular, it argues that the postcolonial Indian state has attempted to integrate these ethnic/sub-state national groups into the Indian Union through a combination of democratic accommodation/consociationalism and hegemonic/violent control, strategically designed to encapsulate their evolving (sub) national identities into the overarching state-sponsored Indian nationality.

Through this book, readers will gain a rich understanding of the dynamics of ethnicity/ nationality and the nation/state-building process in postcolonial India. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Asian studies, ethnicity, nationalism, separatism, security studies, border studies, and international relations.

By: Jugdep Chima (Hiram College USA), Pahi Saikia (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032484204
ISBN 10: 1032484209
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jugdep S. Chima is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Hiram College, USA. He is the author of The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements (2010) and the editor of Ethnic Subnationalist Insurgencies in South Asia: Identities, Interests, and Challenges to State Authority (2015). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Asian Survey, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Review of International Studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Third World Quarterly on topics relating to the political economy of conflict, political parties and group conflict, individual participation in insurgency, and ethnicity and democracy. Pahi Saikia is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. She is the author of Ethnic Mobilisation and Violence in Northeast India (2011). She has also co-edited a book with Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury titled India and Myanmar Borderlands: Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity (2019). She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Political Psychology, India Review, South Asian History and Culture on political behavior, ethnofederalism, identity-digital media nexus, women in post-conflict zones, and India's multilateral connectivity.