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Understanding the complex state-building process in Mizoram requires the systematic mapping of the discourses and narratives of 'inclusion' and 'exclusion' at all levels which is thoroughly dictated by those in power. The region's 'Histories' of statecraft and policies displays a distinct narrative than that of mainland India. The 'Northeast' in general and Mizoram in particular, provides a unique experience in understanding the trends in everyday politics as 'a living space' in contemporary India. Mizoram, as a category in contemporary Indian politics reminds one of 'the protracted insurgency led by the legendary Laldenga and the Mizo National Front'. The region remains a geo-political puzzle and mapping its location becomes a perplexing task for most Indians. The complexities involved in the regions politics, state-building and citizen-building efforts based on the logic of exclusions and inclusions, hardly echoes beyond the Zo tlang ram. Against this silhouette, the paper attempts, first, at peeping through the 'Zo' Oral traditions; and the impact of Colonialism and Christianity- the timeless gendered practices in the Zo/Mizo society. Second, it attempts at reflecting on the Human Rights situation of women in the state building process of Mizoram from the Insurgency period onwards. Third, it attempts at highlighting the survival strategies adopted by the women to create their own spaces and have their voices heard in the public sphere.

The 'Northeast' as a socio-politico category in contemporary Indian politics symbolizes a space where patriarchal hegemony dictates the construction of the discourses and narratives of inclusion and exclusion. Mainland India and the world beyond are hardly aware of the underlying realities of the region-the Politics of Silencing-exclusions and incisions, politics of identity, religious persecutions, stat-led victimization of women and the marginals etc which are justified in the name of 'State-building' in this backdrop, the paper attempts trace the sources and the construction of the marginal position of women, vai and the pois who from the triad of the marginals and also reflects on the politics of silencing as propelled by the hegemony of the nexus of patriarchy in Mizo society. Adapted from the source document.

Introduction -- Section 1: Northeast: Then and Now -- Chapter 1. Idea of North-East India: Contesting the Construct -- Chapter 2. Society, Culture and Tribal Development in Northeast India -- Chapter 3. Historicizing Development: Colonialisation, Cartography and Explorationsin India's North East -- Section 2: Vexed Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Lessons from the Borderlands -- Chapter 4. Tracing Northeast Region amidst the tangle of Geopolitics between India and China -- Chapter 5. Economics of Borderland and Lives: Empirical Understanding from North East India -- Chapter 6. Disgruntled Geographies and Contested Connectivity in North East India: Between Wireless and Wiremore -- Chapter 7. Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier -- Chapter 8. Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study of Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh -- Section-3: Between Leaving and Living: People in Motion -- Chapter 9. Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control among Gorkhas in North East India -- Chapter 10. 'Home' Away from Home Region: Northeast India and the Emerging Processof Out-migration -- Chapter 11. The Missing Fluvio-social Dynamics of a Braided River: A Study on a Select Stretch of the Brahmaputra in Assam -- Chapter 12. Routes and Network of Women and Child Trafficking from Manipur in the Liberalization Period: Within and Across the Border of India -- Section 4: Betwixt and Between Belonging and Unbelonging -- Chapter 13. The Fragmented 'Indigenes': Travails of Becoming Bengali in Modern Assam -- Chapter 14. The Flux of Belonging in Assam: Transcending Singular Articulation of Citizenship -- Chapter 15. Forest, Land and Peasant: The case of Doyang Reserve Forest in Assam, India -- Chapter 16. Making a 'Peter the Great' in an imperial frontier: Educating 'natives' and introducing English languageand Roman script in Manipur -- Section 5: Sustainability: Old Problems and Neo-Contentions -- Chapter 17. Extent of Dependence on Forest Resources by the Forest Dwellers and Its Impact on Forest in Western Assam, India, with Special Reference to Kachugaon, Haltugaon and Parbatjhora Forest Divisions -- Chapter 18. Human-Wildlife Conflict: A Case Study of Manas National Park -- Chapter 19. Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on Sustainable Rural Livelihood Development in Tripura.