CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Frontier States
2. Democracy, Identities and Multiculturalism: Negotiating Identity Politics in North East India
3. Ethnic Identity and People's Aspiration
4. Issues of Ethnicity, Homeland and Democratic Politics in North East India
5. Troubled Northeast: In Search for Unity amongst Diversity with special reference to Assam
6. Multiculturalism, Identity Consciousness and Ethnic Unrest in Assam
7. Politics of Social Exclusion: A Study of Micro Ethnic Communities in Assam
8. Ethnic Assertion Among the Karbis of Assam- A Contextual Study of Autonomy Movement in Karbi-Anglong
9. The Koch-Rajbongshis in Assam: Search for the Schedule Tribes Status- A Critical Evaluation
10. British Colonial Policies and the Labourers of Assam
11. Ideological Aspects of Ethnic Separatism in Assam: Case of the Bodo Movement
12. Bodo, Bodoland and Beyond and Beyond Bodoland
13. Beyond the Politics of the Public: Women Violence and the Family in North East India
14. Debating the Human Security Discourse and Development in North East India
15. Understanding Social Security: Debate, Policies and Programmes in India
16. Development and Big Dams in North East India
17. 'Indian State' and Colonial Apparatuses; can peace be achieved in Northeast India by Violating People's Rights?
18. Conflict and Displacement: the state of IDPs in Northeast India
19. Insurgency in Assam and cross border Linkage: Case of ULFA
20. AFSPA and the Operation of Unified Command Structure in Assam
21. North East in Indo- Myanmar Geostrategic Environment: An Appraisal
22. Confronted by Insurgents and Enclosed by 'Frenemies'