Hill Politics In Northeast India

Contributed articles chiefly with reference to rural development in Northeastern India; includes articles on cultural history of the region.

The study is aimed to formulate a regional geopolitical framework based on neogeopolitical ideas and tried to examine the correlation between geography, economic resources, ethnicity and politics.

The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification> of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an insightful account of present-day challenges for indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic sovereignty and development.

Contributed papers presented at the Seminar on Reorganization of North-East India since 1947 held in Feb. 1993.