Beyond Counter-Insurgency

Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York, and Honorary Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND TABLES ; 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 Loincloth, 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 of Decision-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 Ethnic Reconciliation in Tripura (Subir Bhaumik) ; 14. Grounds for Democratic Hope in Arunachal Pradesh: Emerging Civic Geographies and the Reinvention of Gender and Tribal Identities (Betsy Taylor) ; 15. Rethinking Delhi's Northeast India Policy: Why neither Counter-insurgency nor Winning Hearts and Minds is the Way Forward (Bethany Lacina) ; REFERENCES ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; INDEX