A number of armed conflicts smolder in India’s Northeastern border region. For instance, the Naga rebellion, which began in the 1950s, is one of the world’s oldest unresolved armed conflicts.
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Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India
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Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community in India
by , 2 September 2008Prime Minister’s High Level Committee, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. | November 2006
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Big Dams, Big Floods: On Predatory Development
by , 2 September 2008Economic and Political Weekly, 26 July 2008
Built on the logic of “development”, big dams have wreaked havoc on indigenous communities in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh with regular flooding. By pursuing predatory development the central and state governments are equally culpable of visiting disaster on the region.
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Arundhati Roy: at the Independent Tribunal on the World Bank in India
by , 2 September 2008initial findings of the Independent People’s Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India that took place in Delhi at the end of September 2007
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Queering India: same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society
by , 2 September 2008
