Urban Planning and Policies: Reorientation of Policy Norms Part-A

This compendium of thirteen essays, earlier published in Alternative Perspectives (formerly known as Alternative Frames), attempts to examine the dynamics of India’s Look East Policy (LEP) and its impact on Northeast region, with special focus on Manipur. Tracing the origin and conceptualisation of India’s Look East Policy, the contributors explain the multi-dimensions of relations between India and Southeast Asia. They also deliberate on the development strategies in the Northeast region, the conceptualisation of the region as a ‘frontier periphery’, LEP’s ecological and environmental implications, underdeveloped nature of Manipur’s socioeconomic landscape, effect of Look East Policy on the economy of the Northeast, Indo-Myanmar relations, the paradox of growing Indian support for military rule in Myanmar, and the nature of disfunction anticipated in a land like Manipur.