North-East India (Society, Culture and Development) - Couverture rigide

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9789381574485: North-East India (Society, Culture and Development)

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ISBN 10 : 9381574480 ISBN 13 : 9789381574485

Editeur : The Asiatic Society, 2016

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Language: English
Pages: 308

Preface

The region which is now popularly known as 'North-East India' was primarily familiar as the land of seven sisters viz. Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh. Much later Sikkim was also added to this regional agglomeration which has a long history of politico-economic and socio-cultural formation of the land and its people. The scope of the present preface is primarily limited to a specific focus related to the contributions of seminar papers included in this volume. Therefore, I would not venture to go into its details, but mention that since the annexation of Assam in 1826 by the British colonizers the region and its people had gone through a number of historical turning points. Originally, Assam and its two substantial valleys i.e. Barak and Brahmaputra and the outlying hilly terrain along with two principalities i.e. Manipur and Tripura formed the geographical land mass of today's North- East India. Going through the various phases of political vicissitude Nagaland was curved out in 1963 as the first Hill State besides Assam. Subsequently, Manipur and Tripura, the hitherto known two princely states along with Meghalaya obtained their statehood in 1972. The declaration of hill states continued till the formation of Mizoram in 1986 and Arunachal Pradesh in 1987. Sikkim was declared as State in 1975 and was added to the North- East Region only in 2002. Officially the North-East Region came into being since the inception of North-Eastern Council (NEC) in 1971.

The North-East region is extremely important and unique in many senses of the term on account of its strategic geo-political existence having 25,500 sq. km area of which 4500 sq. km accounts for the international boundary with Ti

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