ABOUT THE BOOK:- Of late, ethnic Identity has become debatable issue in the academic discourse of Northeast India. The issue of ethnic identity is a very complex process in this region. That means the sharing of a common culture on the one hand, and harping on separateness on the other. It is argued that there are conflicting situations in the northeast because these ethnic groups are trying to explore and construct their own history, culture, politics and identity from their own perspective. In this context the main focus of this book is to represent the plural voices of the ethnic groups while negating with the existing dominant discourses in the present academic epistemology. These discourses neglected the ideological and mass political character of the ethnic groups who are constructing their identity and history through politics of difference, politics of recognition and experience of marginalization. These three political ideas could be considered as their political ideology that always sustained for mapping identity formation among the ethnic groups of Northeast India. This book is divided into five thematic sections covering 20 chapters by scholars and researchers and other experts from northeast region. In each section, four papers are included, each touching upon the main theme of the book.
About the Author
R.K. Bijeta is an Institutional Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Guwahati, Assam. She obtained her M.A, M.Phil and PhD degrees from the Department of History, Assam University, Silchar, Assam. She has authored, Raid and Resistance: The Politics of the Nagas in Colonial Assam (2016). She has also contributed number of articles/research papers in various journals and edited books and presented papers in various seminars and conferences. Her area of research includes Oral History, Ethnic Politics and Tribal History. Vulli Dhanaraju is currently teaching History at the Assam University (Central University) Diphu Campus, Assam. He obtained his M.A, M.Phil and PhD degrees from the Department of History from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He was a Teen Murti Fellow during 2008-2010 at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. His area of research and specializations includes Oral History, Subaltern History and Environmental History. He has authored and edited six books; Debating Tribal Identity: Past and Present; A Textbook of Environmental History of India; The Idea of Caste; Voice of the Other: Understanding Marginal identities; Regional Environmental History: Issues and Concepts in the Indian Subcontinent; Caste, Tribe and Gender: The Politics of Self and the Other. He has also contributed number of articles/research papers in UGC recognized journals and various conferences.
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