Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. What is a Raij? Translating Counter-Sovereignties in Twenty-First Century Assam.
3. A Non-Eurocentric Genealogy of Indian Democracy: Tripura in History of Political Thought.
4. By the Ballot: Constructing Citizens Through Elections in Assam.
5. Monks and Minority Politics in Arunachal Pradesh.
6. Ethnic Mobilization and the Election Process: A Study of the Contours of Identity Making in Mizoram.
7. Ethnocracy in Deeply Divided Societies: The Dynamics of Ethnopolitics in Manipur.
8. Like the Fish Follows the Pythons: Biomoral Politics Amongst Meitei Revivalists.
9. Prophecy as Politics: of Chosenness, Convenant and Cosmos in the Naga Struggle for Sovereignty.
10. Konyak Cosmopolitics: Feasting Kings, Fasting Prophets, and the State.
11. 'A Register and a Bill': The Contentious Making of Citizenship in Assam.
12. The Body of the Land: Women, Ethnicity and Alter-Politics.
13. In Search of the 'Enemy': Outsiders, Women and Political Exclusion in Northeast India.
14. Designing Indigeneity: Eco-Tourism, State Benevolence, and 'Entitled' Youth in Dzongu, Sikkim.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-399) and index.