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This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia region. The traditional understanding of citizenship and belonging in the Indian context has been fraying in recent decades. The book offers an analysis of discussions on India's contested zones, the anxieties around identity and the implications of and reactions to the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in different regions in the country. It interrogates the concepts of belonging, ownership and dissent through an analysis of the anti-CAA protests, the Namasudra movements, the life of Tibetan refugees in India and the precarious lives of many communities in India who are identified as stateless, refugees, migrants or outsiders. Interdisciplinary and topical, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, political science, law, refugee studies, borderland studies, migration studies, public policy, social policy and development studies.

Scholarly discourses involving the peripheral regions often look through the binary lenses of 'identity' and 'development', which are then ascribed as the root causes, leading to the emergence of political movements in these regions. Analogies emanating from such visions entrapped solely on development deficit fall short in dealing with the interplay and intersections of history, geography and politics related to such regions. The analysis concerning the Gorkhaland Movement also seems to be trapped within such an explanatory binary of 'identity' and 'development'. This article attempts to situate the hills of Darjeeling, where the movement is located, into a less discussed framework of geopolitics that not only politicizes the geographies of the Eastern Himalayas but also historicizes the communities and their aspirations as a response to the manoeuvrings by the concerned states. Within such a framework, we shall also discuss how the colonial geopolitics of migration, henceforth, has been succinctly carried forward by the post-colonial state in shaping its notions related to the hills of Darjeeling.

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.