Production of North Eastern Region: Colonial Construction and Nationalist Affirmation

Abstract

In the dominant discourse of the nation, India’s northeast has been seen as a (a) ‘tribal region… which is a far off place where some kind of trouble seems to be always brewing’ [that] ‘has faced periodic armed insurrection from the time of independence… [and] remain under a form of quasi martial law reflecting both the continuing danger of unrest and the strategically vulnerable nature of the region.