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Governing the Borderlands: Democratic Politics, Law and Institutions in Northeast India de Durga Prasad Chhetri

Governing the Borderlands: Democratic Politics, Law and Institutions in Northeast India

Editat de Durga Prasad Chhetri
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 oct 2026
This book develops a conceptual framework to better understand governance issues, and theoretical tools to grasp the variety of empirical realities observed in practice in Northeast India. Drawing from the study of cases of governance, law and institutions in India’s Northeast borderlands, it provides an exploratory space for creative thinking and to encourage a wider, deeper and more nuanced debate on governance in the periphery from a broader knowledge base. Focusing on politics, law and institutions in India’s periphery, the essays in the volume develop an interdisciplinary understanding the complexity of governance of borderlands addresses a variety of themes from various perspectives, such as democracy, politics, autonomy, citizenship, law, institutions, and border states.The volume will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian studies, especially northeast India, politics, borderland studies, and public policy.
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ISBN-13: 9781032375779
ISBN-10: 1032375779
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 10
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Rethinking Governance from the Margins; PART I Genealogies of Rule: Law, Violence and the Making of Borderland Governance, 1. Governing the Borderlands: Origins of Law and Autonomous Institutions in India’s Northeast, 2. Law, Citizenship and Democracy, 3. Framing the Tribal: Ethnic Violence in Northeast India; PART II Ethnicity and Vernacularisation of the State, 4. Governance in the Tribal Hills: Lessons from the Experiences of Governing ‘Gorkhas’ in Darjeeling Hills, 5. Engaging the State: Ethnic Patronage and Cultural Politics in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland, 6. Examining Traditional Governance and Tribal Polity of the Kukis in the Hills of Contemporary Manipur, 7. What’s in a ‘Tribe’? Claims making and the Dynamics of the Naga National Movement; PART III Territory, Sovereignty and the Politics of Autonomy, 8. Federalism and Cultural Pluralism: Reflections on Northeast India, 9. Contested Boundaries: The Assam-Mizoram Border Dispute in Northeast India, 10. District Autonomy in Northeast India: Hopes and Realities; PART IV Reconfiguring Democracy: Institutions, Media and Political Transformation, 11. Weapon of Masses: Social Media and Governance in Sikkim, 12. Traditional Institutions and Democratic Governance in Meghalaya: A Critical Assessment, 13. Governance and Democracy, 14. Electoral Politics and Political Transformation in the Borderlands: Four Decades of Democracy in Sikkim; Afterword Beyond Exceptionality: Democracy and the Crisis of Governability in the Borderlands

Notă biografică

Durga P Chhetri is Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Political Science, Sikkim University, Sikkim, India. He also serves as Director of the University. His research foci include governance, decentralisation and federalism, gender studies, social justice, social theory and social exclusion/inclusion. He is the author or co-author of many scholarly articles and book chapters as well as five books, including Making Democratic Decentralization Work in South Asia (co-edited: 2025), Gender, Power and Democracy in South Asia (2019), Divided Spaces: Discourse on Social Exclusion and Women in India (2014), Decentralised Governance and Development in India (2012), and Politics, Society and Development: Insights from Sikkim (2012). He is on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Political Science, which publishes the high quality, cutting-edge research in all areas of political science. He is the recipient of the India’s National Young Political Scientist Award 2017.

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This book develops a conceptual framework to better understand governance issues, and theoretical tools to grasp the variety of empirical realities observed in practice in Northeast India. The volume will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian studies, especially northeast India, politics, borderland studies, and public policy.