The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately
understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh …

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia
Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader …

Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power
and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth …

During the last decade, indigenous youth from Northeast India have migrated in large
numbers to the main cities of metropolitan India to find work and study. This migration is …

The Northeast Indian borderlands, a cultural crossroads between South, Southeast and East
Asia, constitute an important post-colonial exception to the narratives of nation, troubling the …

In the last decade, large numbers of indigenous youth from the uplands of Northeast India
have migrated to metropolitan cities across the country. Many end up in the new service …

" This book considers three questions about understanding the past. How can we rethink
human histories by including animals and plants? How can we overcome nationally …

For a city in India's northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and
violence of Asia's longest-running separatist conflict, Dimapur remains' off the map'. With …

In 1937, Burma formally separated from India. The separation might seem self-evident, given
India and Burma's framing as distinct, bounded spaces. Yet, in the Patkai mountains …

Life on the margins of the state is not a dark, static, and silent world. It is, in fact, a radiant
world, involving multiple processes of reenactment of life, lifeways, and individual …