Between National Security and Ethno-nationalism The Regional Politics of Development in Northeast India

摘要: Although scholarly interest in Northeast India is growing there still relatively little discussion of the high levels poverty region and failures development. When mentioned they are viewed instrumentally as causes and/or symptoms ongoing insurgency counter-insurgency. However this does not fully explain how a that receives an extraordinarily large amount development funding from Indian Government, has its own ministry, some India’s highest human indicators, array institutional layers assuring autonomy decentralisation well above national average. Using state Meghalaya, article examines factors underpinning agenda political space for contesting agenda. The argument presented three-fold; regional underpinned by security imperatives which characterise relations between various gov...