Start Date: 2024-02-05 Course Code: HU 714 L-T-P-C: 3-0-0-6
Course Name: Socio-Political Issues in Understanding North Eastern Region Semester: First Course Faculty: Panchali Bhattacharya

Course Plan

Socio-Political Issues in Understanding the North Eastern Region


The Idea of Region: Geographic, Political and Social-Integration of the socio-economic formations of NER into the Indian State-Geo-politics of NER-Geo-economics of NER-Limitations of Democratic Conflict Resolution Mechanism-Transformation of social identity into political identity-clan, tribe, nationality continuum-immigration, partition, and demographic change in NER.


References
Paul R Brass, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison, Sage Publications, New Delhi
Erend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies, Yale University Press, New Haven
Leo A Despres, Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies, Mouton, The Hague
Amalendu Guha, Planter Raj to Swaraj, ICHR, New Delhi
Sanjib Baruah, India Against Itself, Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Girin Phukan, Ethnicity and Polity in South Asia, South Asian Publishers, New Delhi

Class Notes & PPTs

  1. Lesson Plan _ HU 714 - PPT