Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Governing India's Northeast: An Introduction; Abstract; 1.1 Governance: From 'Farce' to 'Tragedy'; 1.2 Trumping Violence with Development; 1.3 Peace as a 'Culture Industry'; 1.4 About the Volume; References; 2 Production of the Insurgent Subject; Abstract; 2.1 Routes to Violence; 2.2 Governance in Colonial Times; 2.2.1 Governing as Frontier; 2.2.2 Governing by Differentiation; 2.2.3 Governance by Settlement; 2.3 The Colonized and the Rebel; 2.4 Post-colonial Governance; 2.5 Politics of Care; 2.6 Governing in Global Times: Developmentalism of the 1990s
2.7 Emergence of the New CitizenReferences; 3 Shifting Strategies of Peace; Abstract; 3.1 The First Phase Comes to an End; 3.1.1 Peacemaking Sans Peace; 3.1.2 Peace as Deterrent to Democracy; 3.2 Into the Second Phase; 3.3 Governing the New Citizen; References; 4 Governing Cultures of Peace; Abstract; 4.1 Hermeneutic of Peace; 4.2 Culture as Contested Terrain; 4.3 The Gandhian Approach; 4.3.1 Killing the Moral Person; 4.3.2 Governing Through Development; 4.3.3 Governing by Separation; 4.4 Concluding Observations; References; About the Author
Summary
¿This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India's Northeast -- a 'problem' zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violence, interethnic conflict and insurgency; and at another, traces macro changes in the very forms and technologies of governance. The essays in this volume point to how changing forms and technologies of governing insurgen
