Understanding ethnicity-based autonomy movements in India's northeastern region

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ID11048044
AuthorsKomol Singha (0000-0002-3639-1897, Sikkim University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume45
Issue4
Pages687-706
Publication date2017-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2017.1300879
OpenAlexW2734945508
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

Soon after independence, India's northeastern region was swamped in a series of conflicts starting with the Naga secessionist movement in the 1950s, followed by others in the 1960s. The conflicts intensified and engulfed the entire region in the 1970s and 1980s. However, in the 1990s, following reclamation of ethnic identities amid gnawing scarcities, the conflicts slowly turned into internal feuds. Consequently, alliance and re-alliance among the ethnic groups transpired. In the 2000s, it finally led to the balkanization of ethnicity-based autonomy movements in the region. Unfortunately, the state's ad-hoc measures failed to contain protected conflicts and, instead, compounded the situation and swelled hybrid ethnic identities

Alliance · Autonomy · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Geography · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora

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