[Assam] Book by Sanjib Baruah / Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India

[Chan Mahanta]

The following is a must read for all who are interested in Assam.

It is available to purchase from Amazon.com for $ 10.

But the .pdf version is free.

cm





><http://washington.eastwestcenter.org/Publications/baruah.pdf>http://washington.eastwestcenter.org/Publications/baruah.pdf
>
>PS 33   Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India
>             by Sanjib Baruah 
>             Purchase from Amazon 
><http://washington.eastwestcenter.org/Publications/psseriespdf33.htm>PDF 
>Format        
>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. With its controversial human rights 
>record and sluggish economic growth, Northeast 
>India is a counterpoint to India’s new image as 
>a mature democracy, dynamic economy, and 
>emerging major power. This study proposes a 
>democratic institution-building agenda that is 
>sensitive to the particular dynamics of change 
>in this “postfrontier.” In a historically 
>sparsely populated region with long-term trends 
>of demographic transformation, managing 
>indigenous-settler tensions must be a priority. 
>This and other challenges cannot be addressed 
>through domestic policy alone. An effective 
>alternative policy must have a transnational 
>dimension; to turn the region’s extensive 
>international borders – with China’s Tibet 
>region, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Burma – from 
>militarized zones of mistrust and confrontation 
>to spaces of cooperation.
> 
><http://www.eastwestcenterwashington.org/Publications/psseriespdf33.htm>PDF 
>Format 
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.assamnet.org/pipermail/assam-assamnet.org/attachments/20070706/78a421c7/attachment.htm>