Troubled Diversity
Subtitle: The Political Process in Northeast India
Publisher: Oxford University Press India; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780199453337
Subjects: India, politics and government; India, social conditions
Description: 'Troubled Diversity' provides a comprehensive analysis of the conflict situation in the northeastern region of India by addressing questions such as: why identity politics centering around ethnicity is more intense in this region? For creating and consolidating its respective identities, why does every ethnic group make and effort to construct its other? How does the ideology of the other motivate and guide identity politics?