Armed violence and poverty in Northeast India: a mini case study for the Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative

YesThis mini report on Northeast India is one of 13 case studies (all of the case studies are available at www.bradford.ac.uk/cics). This research draws upon secondary data sources including existing research studies, reports and evaluations. As DFID does not have any direct development engagement in Northeast India, this report does give any direct programming or policy recommendations. However, it does highlight key issues which need to be addressed for armed violence to be reduced in the region. The authors would like to thank David Seddon for comments made on an earlier draft. The analysis and opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or policy of DFID or the UK government

Austro-Asiatic Tribes of Northeast India Provide Hitherto Missing Genetic Link between South and Southeast Asia

Northeast India, the only region which currently forms a land bridge between the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, has been proposed as an important corridor for the initial peopling of East Asia. Given that the Austro-Asiatic linguistic family is considered to be the oldest and spoken by certain tribes in India, Northeast India and entire Southeast Asia, we expect that populations of this family from Northeast India should provide the signatures of genetic link between Indian and Southeast Asian populations. In order to test this hypothesis, we analyzed mtDNA and Y-Chromosome SNP and STR data of the eight groups of the Austro-Asiatic Khasi from Northeast India and the neighboring Garo and compared with that of other relevant Asian populations. The results suggest that the Austro-Asiatic Khasi tribes of Northeast India represent a genetic continuity between the populations of South and Southeast Asia, thereby advocating that northeast India could have been a major corridor for the movement of populations from India to East/Southeast Asia

Northeast India: Where Scribes Override Journalism

Reporting turmoil and conflicts were the order of the day for most of Assam (also northeast India) based scribes as the region was overshadowed by separatist militants with their disruptive activities until a few years back. Media persons then faced two-edged swords where reporting would bring brickbats from the government agencies and aloofness could invite wraths from the armed rebels

Book review: Tigers are our brothers: anthropology of wildlife conservation in Northeast India by Ambika Aiyadurai

In Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India, Ambika Aiyadurai offers an ethnographic study of wildlife conservation in Northeast India, examining the relationship between tigers, the Idu Mishmi and conservation actors. Writing about the region with care, this book will be an important starting point for future research by conservationists and social scientists on identity construction through biodiversity conservation, writes Dixita Deka. Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India. Ambika Aiyadurai. Oxford University Press. 2021

Towards Sub-regional cooperation: India’s Northeast and Bangladesh

The South Asian countries have a shared past based on deep-rooted common cultural heritage and historical legacy. The region has demographic and geographical advantages young labour force and a contiguous border. The spatial dimension of regional integration of Northeast India and Bangladesh can be inferred from the historical fact that economic growth of Northeast during the British rule flourished essentially on the strength of its integrated transport network through East Bengal. Inland-water trade between India and Bangladesh is important in linking not only Assam but the region as a whole to Bangladesh. Cost effective trade routes through water ways is more important than land routes for India’s Northeast through the corridors of Bangladesh. Notwithstanding the importance of waterways, the land routes continue to be the safe transit for informal trade between both the countries.Regional cooperation; Northeast India

Human Development Reports on North-East India: A Bird’s Eye View

The paper is a brief account of findings of various human development reports published either by UNDP or Govt. of India or by individual state governments on the states of northeast India. The findings reveal that achievement of northeastern region is quite reasonable in comparison to all India average situations in respect of human development indicators for both the sexes but it has miserably failed in bringing commensurate economic growth. There exits wide spread disparity of socioeconomic achievements across different states and from urban to rural areas. In spite of being a tribal belt and in some cases having matrilineal society women are to be at par with that of men. If the problems of poor economic growth, overall development and gender disparities are not properly addressed the region may fall into the trap of vicious quadrant instead of moving to a virtuous one.Human Development, Northeast India

Fifty-year disturbance: the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and exceptionalism in a South Asian periphery

Introduction to Special Issue on Armed forces Special Powers Act 1958 (AFSPA) in Northeast India

Охота на диких животных в северо-восточной Индии. Проблемы охраны биоразнообразия

Northeast India is a land of rich biodiversity with 145 tribal communities. Hunting is commo

International Conference Negotiating Ethnicity: Politics and Display of Cultural Identities in Northeast India. Vienna, 4-6 July 2013

Report of the International Conference: Negotiating Ethnicity: Politics and Display of Cultural Identities in Northeast India. Vienna, 4-6 July 201

PROTECTION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF SELECT ORGANIC RAW SPICES OF NORTH EAST INDIA THROUGH GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION-A REVIEW

Abstract Indigenous knowledge is an inherited knowledge gained by communities of farmers and local origins. Northeast India blessed with such inherited traditional knowledge and being rich biodiversity hotspot adds value to the specific cultivated spices of this region which needs to be preserved. Geographical Indication act as an instrument and a potential mechanism to sustain it, bridge the gap and educate the future generations for efficient use of the traditional knowledge. The study is conducted in four states of Northeast India namely, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Sikkim. The data are being analyzed with the use of Nvivo software