Dimensions of Displaced People in North-East India

Contents: Preface. I. Migration, displacement and development: 1. Power, fear, ethics/Ranabir Samadhar. 2. Whose nation is it anyway: nation building and displacement in Indian sub-continent/Sajal Nag. 3. Population displacements and development dilemmas: a reflection on linguistic politics in the north-east/R. Gopalakrishnan, K.K. Jhunjhunwallah and Manasi Shailaja. 4. Immigration into North-East India: the security dimensions/Gurudas Das. 5. Human movement and the nation state: dimensions of an Indian crisis in its north-eastern region/Anindyo J. Majumdar. II. Refugees: 6. Dialogue between deaf and dumb: the Lhotshampa refugees and their predicament/A.C. Sinha. 7. One or many paths: coping with the Tibetan refugees in India/T.B. Subba. 8. Displacing the displaced: the Nepalis in North-East India/Tejimala Gurung. 9. Chakma and Hajong refugees of Arunachal Pradesh: still a "no where" people/Sanat K. Chakraborty. 10. Status of Burmese refugees in North-East India/R.K. Ranjan Singh. 11. Cross border human traffic: a case study of the Burmese refugees in North-East India/C. Joshua Thomas. III. Internally displaced persons: 12. Internally displaced persons in Arunachal Pradesh/S. Dutta. 13. Ethnic conflicts and internal displacement in Manipur/T.T. Haokip. 14. Internally displaced persons in Mizoram/Lianzela. 15. The internally displaced persons of Meghalaya/H. Ghonglah. 16. Internally displaced persons in Tripura past and present/Mahadev Chakravarti. 17. Internally displaced persons in Twipra/Khakchang Debbarma. 18. State development and population displacement in North-East India/Monirul Hussain. 19. Dispossession and displacement: the genesis of a people’s movement in North Bengal/Sujata D. Hazarika. 20. Refugees as political actors: the displaced Bengalis in West Bengal/Abhijit Dasgupta. IV. Immigration: 21. In search of a community: the immigrant Muslims of contemporary Assam/Samir Kumar Das. 22. Role of the media in settling the immigration problem/Makiko Kimura. 23. Immigration, IM (DT) Act, Governor’s report in defence of common sense/Jaideep Saikia. Index.

"It has been observed that South Asia has the fourth largest concentration of refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants in the world. Many of the refugee issues in South Asia are perhaps well covered but the eastern and northeastern part of this subcontinent which has experienced substantial refugee flows because of the geopolitical proximity of the host of countries and sub regions in turmoil is, one of the most under reported in terms of refugee problem. In recent times the problem of internal displacement in the region due to sharpening ethnic strife is also becoming a matter of serious concern.

This book is the outcome of a regional seminar organised by the North Eastern Regional Centre of the ICSSR, Shillong. This book offers detailed information related to refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons in Northeast India and thereby it seeks to fill the gap created by lack of authentic information from the area.

This book will be of great help to the students, research scholars, administrators, diplomats, policy makers and to the public in general." (jacket)