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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Our Contributors
Vol. 1
1. Introduction : Some Preliminary Notes on Politics of Culture, Identity
and Protest / Padam Nepal and Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
2. Politics of Culture, Identity and Nationalism : Some Critical
Engagements from the Marxian Perspective / Pradip Kumar Sengupta and Ambika
Thami
3. The Protest Masks : Politics of Culture and Identity / George Thadathil
4. Ethnic Identity and the Search for the Roots in Postcolonial Bodo
Literature : With Reference to Poetry / Anil Boro
5. Ethnic Identity of Thengal Kacharis of Assam : Politics of Exclusion and
Ethnic Assertion and the Role of Folklore / Kailash Dutta and Anil Kumar
Boro
6. Role of Folk/Popular Songs in Social Movement Mobilisation : Experiences
from Beyond the North-east / Padam Nepal
7. Mimicry and the Indian Violin : Towards (Re) Representing Image-identity
of "Indianness" and Indian Classical Music / Angsumala Tamang
8. The Concept of APAh (Waters) in the Rig Veda : Water and Everyday Life /
Ram Nath Jha
9. Ideological Underpinnings of Pervasive Patriarchy in the Construction of
Gender in Nepali Proverbs / Balram Uprety
10. Women in the Zo Society : Unscreening the Kuki-chin-mizo Oral
Traditions and Zo Written History / Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
11. Foregrounding Caliban in Prospero's Narrative : Unearthing
Socio-cultural Gender-friendly Traditions of Two Tribal Societies : The
Lepchas of India and the Igbos of Nigeria / Shreya Bhattacharji
12. Women of Darjeeling Hills : The `Other' in the Colonial Setting,
1835-1900 / Devika Lama
13. Ethnic Movements and Women's Participation : A Critical Reflection on
the Participation of Women with the Gorkhaland Movement / Ranjita
Chakraborty and Namit Lepcha
Vol. 2
14. Rights and Empowerment of Women in Bengal : A Historical Perspective /
J. B. Nath
15. From Caste to Political Identity : Reflections on the Transition of
Socio-cultural Reforms of the Scheduled Castes to Political Identity in
Late Colonial Bengal / Rup Kumar Barman
16. Ethnic Minorities, the Politics of Identity and the State in
Contemporary West Bengal, India / Arun K. Jana
17. Development of Ethnic Awareness amongst the Lepchas of the Darjeeling
Hills / Alina Pradhan
18. Autonomy Aspiration of the Bodos in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam
vis-a-vis Globalization / Bijan Kunda
19. Sixth Schedule for Darjeeling Hills : A Plea for Restitution of Good
Governance / Dhrubajyoti Bhaumik
20. Problem of Ethnicity : A Case Study of Manipur / Manas Chakraborty
21. British Forest Policy and Forest-Based Popular Resistances in
Darjeeling / K. J. Joseph
22. Forest Governance and People's Protest : An Account of Forest Dwellers'
Resistance in North Bengal / Sourish Jha
23. Transhumance, Livelihood and the Politics of Sustainable Development in
North Sikkim : Mapping the Public Policy -- Local Rationalities Conflict as
an Arena of Protest / Anjan Chakrabarti
24. Nepalis and Bangladeshis in Assam : Comparative Historical Analysis of
Migration, Identity and Citizenship / D. B. Chhetry
25. The Changing Trajectory of the Land-Man Relationship in the Princely
State of Cooch Behar : The Political Economy in Perspective, 1773-1949 /
Prajna Paramiata Sarkar
26. Ethnic Assertion among the Karbis of Assam : A Contextual Study of
Autonomy Movements in Karbi-Anglong / Alaka Sharma
Index
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