Troubled diversity: the political process in Northeast India/ edited by Sandhya Goswami. - New Delhi: Oxford, 2015. - xxxi, 239 p. ; 23 cm.

Foreword by D.P. Barooah
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by Sandhya Goswami

I. Historical Legacies
1. Constructing and Performing Diversity: Colonial and Contemporary Processes
Nandana Dutta
2. Post-Colonial Indian State and Tribes: Nationalist Discursive Structures and a New Hegemonic Consensus
Amit Prakash
3. Nation-State and Ethnicity: The Critical Discourse in Northeast India
Asok Kumar Ray
4. Adivasi Identity Question in Assam: A Historical Perspective
Meeta Deka

II. Diversity, Development, Confl ict, and Management
5. The Nexus between Development and Diversity: A Case Study of the Pagladia Dam Project
Barnalee Choudhury
6. Demand of 'Tea Tribes' for Scheduled Tribe Status in Assam: A Review
Dhruba Pratim Sharma
7. Autonomy Question and Local Governance Paradox: Alternative Intra-federal De-territorialized Model
Jayanta Krishna Sarmah
8. Managing Diversity: The Case of the Karbi-Dimasa Autonomy Movement
Uttam Bathari

III. Comparative Perspective
9. Northeast and Kashmir: Problems in a Comparative Perspective
Noor Ahmad Baba
10. Diversity and Conflict: Lessons Drawn from Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India
Rekha Chowdhary and Sandhya Goswami
11. Beyond the Politics of Control
Bhagat Oinam

Index
Notes on the Editor and Contributors

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India, Northeastern
Multiculturalism
Identity politics
Politics and government
Social conditions

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