Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability

Introduction.- Section 1: Northeast: Then and Now.- Chapter 1. Idea of North-East India: Contesting the Construct.- Chapter 2. Society, Culture and Tribal Development in Northeast India.- Chapter 3. Historicizing Development: Colonialisation, Cartography and Explorationsin India's North East.- Section 2: Vexed Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Lessons from the Borderlands.- Chapter 4. Tracing Northeast Region amidst the tangle of Geopolitics between India and China.- Chapter 5. Economics of Borderland and Lives: Empirical Understanding from North East India.- Chapter 6. Disgruntled Geographies and Contested Connectivity in North East India: Between Wireless and Wiremore.- Chapter 7. Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier.- Chapter 8. Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study of Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh.- Section-3: Between Leaving and Living: People in Motion.- Chapter 9. Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control among Gorkhas in North East India.- Chapter 10. 'Home' Away from Home Region: Northeast India and the Emerging Processof Out-migration.- Chapter 11. The Missing Fluvio-social Dynamics of a Braided River: A Study on a Select Stretch of the Brahmaputra in Assam.- Chapter 12. Routes and Network of Women and Child Trafficking from Manipur in the Liberalization Period: Within and Across the Border of India.- Section 4: Betwixt and Between Belonging and Unbelonging.- Chapter 13. The Fragmented 'Indigenes': Travails of Becoming Bengali in Modern Assam.- Chapter 14. The Flux of Belonging in Assam: Transcending Singular Articulation of Citizenship.- Chapter 15. Forest, Land and Peasant: The case of Doyang Reserve Forest in Assam, India.- Chapter 16. Making a 'Peter the Great' in an imperial frontier: Educating 'natives' and introducing English languageand

Anjan Chakrabarti is a Professor-Director, UGC Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (formerly UGC HRDC), University of North Bengal, West Bengal. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at the UGC Human Resource Development Centre, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, and as an Assistant Professor in Economics at St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling. He also serves as a visiting professor at various Indian universities, including the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. His research interests include development in the northeastern states of India, agrarian relations, agriculture in Bengal, and policy research. He has published more than 50 research papers in national and international journals and edited volumes. He completed seven research projects (International and National). He visited Europe and Southeast Asian countries to present his research findings, sponsored by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He authored "Economic Development and Employment inSikkim" (Authors Press, New Delhi, 2009) and edited a volume entitled "Interrogating Development: Perspectives on Economy, Environment, Ethnicity, and Gender" (Setu Prakashani, Kolkata, 2017) and a textbook on Micro Economics in 2019 for undergraduate students. He has recently received the Global Education Leadership and Management Excellence Award from the Centre for Professional Advancement, West Midland, UK. He is also a recipient of the COVID-19 Warrior Award from the Jadavpur Association of International Relations (JAIR) for his social contribution in 2019. Presently, he is carrying out a major collaborative major empirical research project sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi.

Gorky Chakraborty is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK).He has contributed to variousacademic work relatedto Citizenship, Look East Policy, Migration, Human Geographies etc. The author's works are focused on the North Eastern part of India. His recent published