Territoriality, ethnic contestation and insurgency in the Indo–Myanmar borderland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20082896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ngamjahao Kipgen (0000-0002-2264-7812, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 79-97 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | India and Myanmar Borderlands (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge India (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429346361-5 |
| OpenAlex | W2989950337 |
| ISBN | 9780429346361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This chapter is based on a case study of the Kuki-Chin people of the Indo-Myanmar borderlands. Identified by different names, Kuki and Mizo in India and Chin in Myanmar/Burma, the Kuki-Chin ethnic group is a fringe community and a non-state entity that has sustained a fluid identity under changing historical contexts. The chapter discusses the Kuki-Chin community, ‘transborder peoples’ who constitute the minority in the states they inhabit but have ‘connected history.’ It tries to understand how their notion of ethnic identity and territory had been displaced and fragmented by the colonial and postcolonial states boundaries. The current engagement of the government of India with various insurgent groups in the region makes it imperative to revisit certain problems related to the rise of ethnic nationalism and to explicitly tackle the issues of overlapping territorial demands. The article argues that such overlapping territorial claims, which have their roots in colonial processes of ethnicization and territorial demarcation, need immediate attention to bring durable solution. Such competing claims arose only after colonially constructed categories of local people who shared local living spaces began to claim exclusive ownership of the entire territory of certain administrative units. Drawing on archival sources and ethnohistory, this article examines the Kuki-Chin ethnic insurgents group operating in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands
Biology · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Indo-Pacific · Insurgency · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Territoriality · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Communication · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |