Introduction

India’s North-Eastern Region is the home to different indigenous communities, and socio-economic condition of these communities is relatively weaker than the average national level. Besides the weak physical, social and economic infrastructures, etc., they are primarily the victims of human rights violations in one form or the other. Ethnic, social and political problems have plagued and slowed down the region’s development processes. Therefore, multi-faceted mechanism is highly recommended to overcome the complex issues of these traditional communities.

About the Volume

With these understandings, the present volume Identity, Politics and Economic Development in North-East India, consists of 23 essays, explores the issues of socio-economic, political and cultural dimension of the region. Also, the essays try to explore the difficulties faced by the traditional communities mainly community uprisings and human rights violations and the contributors, through their academic discourses, explored some probable ways and means to overcome the difficulties.