Vernacular Politics in Northeast India :  Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity / 
edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters. 
 - First edition. 
 - x, 413 pages :  illustrations ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> Contents:<br/>1. Introduction.<br/>2. What is a Raij? Translating Counter-Sovereignties in Twenty-First Century Assam.<br/>3. A Non-Eurocentric Genealogy of Indian Democracy: Tripura in History of Political Thought.<br/>4. By the Ballot: Constructing Citizens Through Elections in Assam.<br/>5. Monks and Minority Politics in Arunachal Pradesh.<br/>6. Ethnic Mobilization and the Election Process: A Study of the Contours of Identity Making in Mizoram.<br/>7. Ethnocracy in Deeply Divided Societies: The Dynamics of Ethnopolitics in Manipur.<br/>8. Like the Fish Follows the Pythons: Biomoral Politics Amongst Meitei Revivalists.<br/>9. Prophecy as Politics: of Chosenness, Convenant and Cosmos in the Naga Struggle for Sovereignty.<br/>10. Konyak Cosmopolitics: Feasting Kings, Fasting Prophets, and the State.<br/>11. 'A Register and a Bill': The Contentious Making of Citizenship in Assam.<br/>12. The Body of the Land: Women, Ethnicity and Alter-Politics.<br/>13. In Search of the 'Enemy': Outsiders, Women and Political Exclusion in Northeast India.<br/>14. Designing Indigeneity: Eco-Tourism, State Benevolence, and 'Entitled' Youth in Dzongu, Sikkim.<br/> 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-399) and index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0192863460 9780192863461 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2022931395 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy--India, Northeastern.<br/>Ethnicity--India, Northeastern.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India, Northeastern--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS483.8  / .V47 2022 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.95416  / VER