Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India

Sumi Krishna is an independent scholar and widely published author on gender, environment, development and livelihoods, is former President of the Indian Association for Women's Studies and is Series Editor of the Routledge 'Transition in Northeastern India' series.

Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India: Resource Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges presents some of the finest essays on a region that stretches across the Northeastern Himalaya, eight Indian States and many tribal and non-tribal peoples.

Introduction PART I. Resource Conflicts and Management 1. Land Laws, Development and Globalisation in Northeast India 2. Forest Conservation and Community Land Rights in Manipur 3. Hydro-dollar dreams: Emergent Local Politics of Large Dams and Small Communities 4. Local Institutions, Urban Water Governance and Future Challenges: A Case Study of Shillong PART II. Militarisation, Security and Governance 5. History of Militarisation of the Northeast: Search for a Radical Civil Response 6. Governance and Human Security Issues in the Northeast 7. Security and Development: Understanding the Relationship 8. Violence, Agrarian Change and the Politics of Autonomy in Assam 9. Frontier Towns in the Spatial Dynamics of Trade, Capital and Conflict PART III. Development Challenges 10. Building Northeastern Futures, Looking East 11. Look East Policy and the Continental Route 12. India-Myanmar Borderlands: Pressing Concerns in Public Health Hazards 13. Educational disparities in Northeast India 14. School and Society: Home, Community and the State 15. Of people and their stories: Writing in English from India's Northeast