State vs. Society in Northeast India

G. Amarjit Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Special Centre for the Study of North East India (SCSNEI), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India. He has previously taught political studies at Nambol L. Sanoi College, Bishnupur District, Manipur (2009–2013). He has been associated with a summer institute on Critical Global Humanities at the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), Brown University, USA (2011). He was associated with the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway, and collaborated on a project titled ‘Making Women Count for Peace’. He has published papers in the journals such as Economic & Political Weekly, The Eastern Anthropologist, The Oriental Anthropologist and Man in India. He has also contributed chapters in edited volumes on critical studies in politics, modernity and ethnic processes, cultural practices, identity politics and other subjects. He is primarily interested in the political economy of development, tribal and ethnic studies and anthropology of state and society.  

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: State, Region and Border
Social Imaginaries, Minorities and the Postcolonial History of a Region - Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Colonial State and Annexation of Cachar in a Strategic Frontier of British Bengal - Santosh Hasnu
Spatializing Nation at the Border District of Arunachal Pradesh - Sherin Ajin
PART II Memory, Ethnicity and Civil Society
Public Spaces and the Politics of Remembering in Northeast India - Jangkhomang Guite
The Socio-spatial Politics of ‘Tribal’ and ‘Non-Tribal’ in Meghalaya - Oyindrila Chattopadhyay
Interrogating the ‘Civil Society’ in Naga Society - Rashi Bhargava
PART III Security, Emergency Laws and Protest
Politics of Counterinsurgency and the Expansion of Security Bureaucracy - M. Amarjeet Singh and R. K. Sanayaima
Emergency Law in Nagaland and State’s Classification of People as Suspect - Chubatila
Encountering the State in Manipur: A Political History of Women in Public Space - L. Basanti Devi
PART IV Development, Trans-nationality and Accessibility
The Trajectory of ‘Development’ in a Resource Frontier - G. Amarjit Sharma
Development Schemes and How People Engage with the State in Manipur - Tanmoy Das
Informal Political Networks, Dalals and Local Governance in Assam - Amiya Kumar Das
Index