Overview
- 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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About this book
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
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governing India's Northeast
Book Subtitle: Essays on Insurgency, Development and the Culture of Peace
Authors: Samir Kumar Das
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1146-4
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1145-7Published: 17 June 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1146-4Published: 04 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 93
Topics: Political Science, Public Administration, Regional and Cultural Studies