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Governing India's Northeast

Essays on Insurgency, Development and the Culture of Peace

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Samir Kumar Das

    1. University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, India

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  • Sees governance as the problem, rather than as a solution to the problem of insurgency and violence
  • Reflects critically on policies and should be of interest to the policymakers and activists
  • Three crucial issues of insurgency, development and culture are sought to be understood through the lens of governance

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Governing India’s Northeast: An Introduction

    • Samir Kumar Das
    Pages 1-15

  3. Production of the Insurgent Subject

    • Samir Kumar Das
    Pages 17-44

  4. Shifting Strategies of Peace

    • Samir Kumar Das
    Pages 45-66

  5. Governing Cultures of Peace

    • Samir Kumar Das
    Pages 67-91

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 93-93
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About this book

​This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violence, interethnic conflict and insurgency; and at another, traces macro changes in the very forms and technologies of governance. The essays in this volume point to how changing forms and technologies of governing insurgency, development and culture do not remain mere instruments of peace, but define the very nature and content of both peace and conflict and their interrelationship in the region.

For the first time in the history of scholarship on the region, the three crucial issues of insurgency, development and culture have been analysed through the lens of governance. This volume, therefore, marks an important addition to the scholarship on the region.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, India

    Samir Kumar Das

About the author

Professor Samir Kumar Das is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, India. A professor of political science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (on leave), he has been the coordinator of the University Grants Commission-Departmental Research Support Programme on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’. He was also a post-doctoral fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program). He specializes in and writes on ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy and has lectured widely in premier academic institutions at home and in the USA, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and many other countries on various assignments.

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