Looking Back into the Future

Name: Looking Back into the Future
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Looking Back into the FutureIdentity and Insurgency in Northeast India\nAuthor(s): M. S. Prabhakara\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138662445, 978-1138662445\nSynopsis\nThe book examines questions of identity, ethnicity, sovereignty and insurgency in northeastern India, and especially on Assam and its neighbourhood. Written by an academic-journalist, the various articles situate these in their larger social, economic, political and, above all, historical context, the last being especially important in their becoming a part of colonial India relatively late, well after colonial control was established in the rest of India.\n\nBased on close, ground level experience involving extensive travel and interaction with the people, this collection is the result of a long journalistic career spanning nearly 50 years in the northeast region. Written in simple, lucid language, the essays cover a range of themes inclu.