Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India

1: Introduction (Sanjib Baruah) Part I: Stalemated Conflicts: What Cost? 2: Resenting the Indian State: For a New Political Practice in the Northeast (Ananya Vajpeyi) 3: When was the Postcolonial?: A History of Policing Impossible Lines (Bodhisattva Kar) Part II: Nation and its Discontents 4: From Loin Cloth, Suits, to Battle Greens: Politics of Clothing the 'Naked' Nagas (Dolly Kikon) 5: Writing Terror: Men of Rebellion and Contemporary Assamese Literature (Rakhee Kalita) 6:Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts (Nandana Dutta) Part III: Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion 7: Northeast Problems as a Subject and Object (Pradip Phanjoubam) 8: Preparing for a Cohesive 'Northeast': Problems of Discourse (Bhagat Oinam) 9: Agency of Rioters: A Study ofDecision-Making in the Nellie Massacre, Assam, 1983 (Makiko Kimura) Part IV: Making Peace, Making War: India's Peace Policy 10: The Mizo Exception: State-Society Cohesion and Institutional Capability (M. Sajjad Hassan) 11: Peace sans Democracy?: A Study of Ethnic Peace Accords in Northeast India (Samir Kumar Das) 12: Hills-Valley Divide as a Site of Conflict: Emerging Dialogic Space in Manipur (H. Kham Khan Suan) Part V: Breaking the Impasse 13: Just Development: A Strategy for EthnicReconciliation in Tripura (Subir Bhaumik) 14: Grounds for Democratic Hope in Arunachal Pradesh (Betsy Taylor) 15: Rethinking Delhi's Northeast India Policy: Why neither Counterinsurgency nor Winning Hearts and Minds is the Way Forward (Bethany Lacina) Bibliography, Notes on Contributors,Index