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In the shadows of Naga insurgency : tribes, state, and violence in Northeast India / Jelle J.P. Wouters.

Title

In the shadows of Naga insurgency : tribes, state, and violence in Northeast India / Jelle J.P. Wouters.

Author

Wouters, Jelle J. P.,

Publication

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Description

xxiv, 329 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state's response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life. Offering an ethnographic underview, Jelle Wouters illustrates an 'insurgency complex' that reveals how embodied experiences of resistance and state aggression, violence and volatility, and struggle and suffering link together to shape social norms, animate local agitations, and complicate inter-personal and inter-tribal relations in expected and unexpected ways. The book locates the historical experiences and agency of the Naga people and relates these to ordinary villagers' perceptions, actions, and moral reasoning vis-a-vis both the Naga Movement and the state and its lucrative resources. It thus presses us to rethink our views on tribalism, conflict and ceasefire, development, corruption, and democratic politics.

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Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-314) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available as an e-book.

ISBN

9780199485703
0199485704
9780199093267 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017353337

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries