Unheeded hinterland: identity and sovereignty in northeast India, by Dillip Gogoi

Alex Waterman

Archive data: Person was Visiting Fellow at IDSA Alex is a doctoral candidate in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK, with a background in history… Continue reading Unheeded hinterland: identity and sovereignty in northeast India, by Dillip Gogoi read more

Partly the result of a political and physical isolation compounded by decades of conflict in the region, Northeast India is often viewed through the prism of security studies, institutional performance or developmental governance. While important contributions in themselves, a state-centric focus often overlooks the complexity of the causes and dynamics. It ignores the consequences of regional societal forces’ articulation of identity, nationalism, separatism and sovereignty that can shape political boundaries in the region, thus overlooking the salience of subaltern narratives.