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India
Papers presented in a couple of workshops on the theme of 'Understanding Collective Action and Violence in a Postcolonial Democracy', organized by Calcutta Research Group (CRG) in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, in New Delhi from 19 to 20 March 2011 and in Shimla from 26 to 28 September 2011.
Ethnicity, Nation, and Security, Essays on Northeastern India
With reference to Northeastern states of India since 1980.
Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India
This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern India which is fraught with violent claims of separate statehood. The book offers an account of how the ‘North Bengal’ region has acted as a gateway to migrant populations over time and points to why it must be understood as a shifting and liminal space through a study of Bodoland, Gorkhaland, Kamatapuri, Siliguri and the Greater Cooch Behar movements. It shows the region’s politics of identity or quest for homeland not as a ...
Blisters on Their Feet
This book is a comprehensive study on India’s North East where violence, development and natural disasters that lead to eviction and displacement of `citizens` within a country produce more Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) than refugees. Dwelling upon this debate, the book discusses the two major sources of displacement, conflict and development, and presents a compendium of case studies drawn from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Tripura—the four worst-affected states of the region. The Introduction to the book highlights the silenced aspects of displacement, drawing upon the implications of the case studies presented and bringing them to the centre of any future theoretical enq...
Governing India's Northeast
This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violence, interethnic conflict and insurgency; and at another, traces macro changes in the very forms and technologies of governance. The essays in this volume point to how changing forms and technologies of governing insurgency, development and culture do not remain mere instruments of peace, but define the very nature and content of both peace and conflict and their interrelationship in the region. For the first time in the history of scholarship on the region, the three crucial issues of insurgency, development and culture have been analysed through the lens of governance. This volume, therefore, marks an important addition to the scholarship on the region.
The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public
This book examines the making of the Goddess Durga both as an art and as part of the intangible heritage of Bengal. As the ‘original site of production’ of unbaked clay idols of the Hindu Goddess Durga and other Gods and Goddesses, Kumartuli remains at the centre of such art and heritage. The art and heritage of Kumartuli have been facing challenges in a rapidly globalizing world that demands constant redefinition of ‘art’ with the invasion of market forces and migration of idol makers. As such, the book includes chapters on the evolution of idols, iconographic transformations, popular culture and how the public is constituted by the production and consumption of the works of art and...
Peace Processes and Peace Accords
The second volume in the South Asian Peace Studies series, Peace Processes and Peace Accords looks at the political question of peace from three perspectives: the process of peace; the contentious issues involved in the peace process; and the ideologies that come in conflict in this process. Arguing that peace is not a one-time event to be achieved and rejoiced over but a matter to be sustained against various odds, the contributors show that the sustainability of peace depends on a foundation of rights, justice and democracy. Peace accords, they maintain, are only a moment in the process--the very act of signing an accord could mark either a continuation of the same conflict, or simply its metamorphosis. Therefore, as this volume shows, `negotiation` should be redefined as `joint problem-solving` on a long-term sustained basis, rather than `one-off hard bargaining`.
Internal Displacement in South Asia
Papers presented at a workshop held at Colombo in 2003.
Minorities in South Asia and in Europe
This book studies minorities of South Asia and Europe from a comparative and transnational perspective. It is not difficult to come across country-specific studies of minorities; but comparisons within a region, like South Asia and Europe, or across them are almost non-existent. Minorities are created as modern states emerge and their boundaries are drawn in neat and precise terms. Studying minority groups across such disparate regions as Europe and South Asia makes us aware of the underlying similarities in their situations, as well as of the very real differences, which, perhaps, are as important as the similarities in understanding them. Not all minority interests are reconcilable with one another or even with the transregional agenda. Caught in the whirlpool of global politics, minorities sometimes do not know how to retain the autonomy of their social and political agenda. The book seeks to respond to this challenge by sensitizing us to the lessons of minority experience from a cross-national and cross-regional perspective
Peace and Conflict Studies
This volume explores how we theorize, politicize, and practice peace and conflict discourses in the social sciences. As concepts, peace and conflict are intricately interwoven into a web of complementary discourses where states and other actors are able to negotiate, deliberate and arbitrate their differences short of the overt and covert use of physical violence. The essays in this volume reflect this eclecticism: they reflect on concerns of contemporary conflicts in world politics; the dissection of the ideas of peace and power; the way peace studies join with global agencies; peace and conflict in connection to geopolitics and identity; the domestic basis of conflict in India and the Sout...
