Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability

This volume presents cutting-edge research on India's Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities, contested identities, and economic and political dynamics. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the developmental challenges currently faced by Northeast India, including the complexities of the labor market and the neoliberal economy. The book highlights the lived experiences of individuals in varied geographies and perspectives. It is organized into five sections, each addressing the region's old and vexed questions of 'development', and its complicated relationship with indigeneity and sustainability. Contributions from scholars of various disciplines provide an all-inclusive picture of the region, ranging from a macro to a micro level. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book interests a cross-section of academics and graduate students from different disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, economics, political science, human geography, history, public policy, and development studies.

Accurately depicts the broad canvas and micro-analysis of India's Northeast Explores a diverse range of topics, including material mobilities and contested identities in India's Northeast Presents a nuanced perspective of the region's neoliberal economy and labor market

Auteur

Anjan Chakrabarti is a Professor-Director, UGC Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (formerly UGC HRDC), University of North Bengal, West Bengal. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at the UGC Human Resource Development Centre, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, and as an Assistant Professor in Economics at St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling. He also serves as a visiting professor at various Indian universities, including the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. His research interests include development in the northeastern states of India, agrarian relations, agriculture in Bengal, and policy research. He has published more than 50 research papers in national and international journals and edited volumes. He completed seven research projects (International and National). He visited Europe and Southeast Asian countries to present his research findings, sponsored by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He authored "Economic Development and Employment in Sikkim" (Authors Press, New Delhi, 2009) and edited a volume entitled "Interrogating Development: Perspectives on Economy, Environment, Ethnicity, and Gender" (Setu Prakashani, Kolkata, 2017) and a textbook on Micro Economics in 2019 for undergraduate students. He has recently received the Global Education Leadership and Management Excellence Award from the Centre for Professional Advancement, West Midland, UK. He is also a recipient of the COVID-19 Warrior Award from the Jadavpur Association of International Relations (JAIR) for his social contribution in 2019. Presently, he is carrying out a major collaborative major empirical research project sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi.

Gorky Chakraborty is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK).He has contributed to variousacademic work relatedto Citizenship, Look East Policy, Migration, Human Geographies etc. The author's works are focused on the North Eastern part of India. His recent published books are "Negotiating Borders andBorderlands: The Indian Experience", (Jointly edited with Supurna Banerjee), Orient Blackswan, 2023; Citizenship in Contemporary Times: The Indian Context, Routledge, 2023(edited); Water Conflicts in Northeast India (Jointly edited with K.J. Joy, Partha Das, Chandan Mahanta, Suhas Paranjape, Shruti Vispute), Routledge, 2017; Accumulation and Dispossession: Communal Land in Northeast India (Jointly edited with Asok Ray and Bhupen Sarmah), Akar Books, 2017; The Look East Policy and Northeast India (jointly with Asok Kumar Ray), Aakar Books, 2014 & Assam's Hinterland: Society and Economy in the Char Areas, Akansha Publishing House, 2009.

Anup Shekhar Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Shillong, Meghalaya. He was previously faculty at the Department of Political Science & Political Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, West Bengal. He is also, a member of Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG),Kolkata. He has over 17 years of teaching and research experience. Many of his works focus on the Himalayan region and India's Northeast. He received the Sephis Codesria Young Historians Laureate2006 in Dakar, Senegal; Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and India Development Foundation's "India Social Science Research Award 2009"; and the C.R. Parekh Fellowship 2011-2012 at Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics. The Indian Political Science Association gave him the "National Young Political Scientist Award 2020" at the 59th All India Political Science Conference. His latest co-edited books include Queer and the Vernacular Languages in India: Studies in Contemporary Texts and Culture (with Kaustav Chakraborty (2023). Routledge); and Death and Dying in Northeast India: Indigeneity and Afterlife (with Parjanya Sen (2023). Routledge). He serves as one of the Guest Editors of the Special Issue on "LGBTQ+ People in Situations of Forced Displacement" (Oxford Journal of Refugee Studies. Oxford: UK); and the Special Issue on "Politics and the People in India: Modern and Historical perspectives" (Humanities and Social Science Communications. Springer Nature, UK).

Contenu

Introduction.- Section 1: Northeast: Then and Now.- Chapter 1. Idea of North-East India: Contesting the Construct.- Chapter 2. Society, Culture and Tribal Development in Northeast India.- Chapter 3. Historicizing Development: Colonialisation, Cartography and Explorationsin India's North East.- Section 2: Vexed Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Lessons from the Borderlands.- Chapter 4. Tracing Northeast Region amidst the tangle of Geopolitics between India and China.- Chapter 5. Economics of Borderland and Lives: Empirical Understanding from North East India.- Chapter 6. Disgruntled Geographies and Contested Connectivity in North East India: Between Wireless and Wiremore.- Chapter 7. Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier.- Chapter 8. Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study of Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh.- Section-3: Between Leaving and Living: People in Motion.- Chapter 9. Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control among Gorkhas in North East India.- Chapter 10. 'Home' Away from Home Region: Northeast India and the Emerging Processof Out-migration.- Chapter 11. The Missing Fluvio-social Dynamics of a Braided River: A Study on a Select Stretch of the Brahmaputra in Assam.- Chapter 12. Routes and Network of Women and Child Trafficking from Manipur in the Liberalization Period: Within and Across the Border of India.- Section 4: Betwixt and Between Belonging and Unbelonging.- Chapter 13. The Fragmented 'Indigenes': Travails of Becoming Bengali in Modern Assam.- Chapter 14. The Flux of Belonging in Assam: Transcending Singular Articulation of Citizenship.- Chapter 15. Forest, Land and Peasant: The case of Doyang Reserve Forest in Assam, India.- Chapter 16. Making a 'Peter the Great' in an imperial frontier: Educating 'natives' and introducing English languageand Roman script in Manipur.- Section 5: Sustainability: Old Problems and Neo-Contentions.- Chapter 17. Extent of Dependence on Forest Resources by the Forest Dwellers and Its Impact on Forest in Western Assam, India, with Special Reference to Kachugaon, Haltugaon and Parbatjhora Forest Divisions.- Chapter 18. Human-Wildlife Conflict: A Case Study of Manas National Park.- Chapter 19. Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on Sustainable Rural Livelihood Developmen…