Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State: Perspectives from India’s Northeast

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Whatever be the definition of 'indigenous' vis-a-vis 'indigeneity', and however concensual it might be, both these terms have been inferred, applied and questioned in multifarious ways. The concept indigeneity in Asia has transformed considerably, over a period of time. With the rise in the indigeneity movement and large-scale migration, citizenship within national borders is challenged, and the borders in question are also contested. This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border making in the Northeast India. The issues pertaining to indigeneity, citizenship, and state, are also a reminder of the residues of colonial doings that have had a colossal impact till this day. Through empirical evidence backed by theoretical underpinnings, each essay in the book demonstrates the diversity of approaches that can be used to interrogate the debate on indegeneity, citizenship, the state, and opens the conversation on Northeast India. This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan) Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Introduction: Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State Chapter 1: ‘We the People’: Interrogating Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State—A Northeast Perspective Chapter 2: Who in Northeast India are Indigenous? Chapter 3: What Can a Liberal State Reasonably Expect of Its Citizens? Some Reflections in a Liberal Democracy Chapter 4: ‘Bharat Mata’ and Its Imagination: Multiplicity and Divergence in the Imagination of the Nation in the Multi-Ethnic Situation Chapter 5: Indigeneity, Indigenous Feminism and Legal Pluralism: Emerging Women’s Resistance and a Critique of Gender Theme in Ethnographic Narratives of Northeast India Chapter 6: Divided Under the Sun: Hill and Non-Hill Identity in Mizoram Chapter 7: Land as Foundation of Identity: The Case of the Brus in Mizoram Chapter 8: Land Rights, Identity and Customary Laws Amidst Angami and Konyak Nagas: A Comparative Cross-Referencing Chapter 9: Assamese and Its ‘Others’: Making of a School Language in a Multilingual Society Chapter 10: Rights and Justice to Tea Tribes of Assam: Colonial and Post-colonial Narrative Chapter 11: The Line of Difference: Indigeneity and Ethnicity in Post-colonial Assam Chapter 12: Nationalism and Social Exclusion: The Making of Ethnic Identity Movements in Assam List of Contributors Index