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Land, People and Politics
Contest over Tribal Land in Northeast India

Editors: Walter Fernandes and Sanjay Barbora
IWGIA and NESRC 2009
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Land is the centre of most conflicts in Northeast India because of its importance in the life of the people of the region, particularly its tribal communities. It is also the resource most under attack, in the tribal areas in particular. This book is an attempt to understand the processes that result in tribal land alienation and the consequent conflicts in the region. The essays in this book attempt to disaggregate the received knowledge on land use systems in Northeast India, by using a mixture of ethnography and archival data.

 

Content:

1. Tribal Land Alienation in the Northeast: An Introduction

Walter Fernandes and Sanjay Barbora

2. Privatisation of Communal Land of the Tribes of North East India: A Sociological Viewpoint

A. K. Nongkynrih

3. Land Ownership among the Khasis of Meghalaya: A Gender Perspective

Patricia Mukhim

4. The Alienation of Land among the Garos

Balsa B. Sangma

5. Ethnography of the Nagaland–Assam Foothills in Northeast India

Dolly Kikon

6. Land Use System in Manipur Hills: A Case Study of the Tangkhul Naga

U A Shimray

7. Refugee Rehabilitation and Land Alienation in Tripura

Sukhendu Debbarma

8. Land Alienation due to Large Hydro-Power Projects in Arunachal Pradesh

Manju Menon

9. Land, Laws, Alienation and Con_ict: Changing Land Relations among the Karbis in

Karbi Anglong District

Uttam Bathari


178 pages

ISBN: 9788791563409