Vision 2020 or re-vision 1958: the contradictory politics of counter-insurgency in India's regional engagement

McDuie‐Ra, Duncan

doi:10.1080/09584930903108994

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“…India's attempts at trying to assimilate the entire north eastern region have caused great concern amongst the people living there [27]. Well known American academic of Indian descent, who has spent much of his life working on the Indian northeast, Sanjib Baruah writes, 'unresolved tensions between regional patriotism and pan-Indianism explain the insurgent organisation's resilience and the continuing appeal of its political ideology' [28] 'The region's history as part of independent India has been dominated by political and social movements against the Indian state and against threats to ethnic identity from migrants and neighbouring communities' [29]. Also, when one travels to the region, one is immediately surprised to see how heavily militarised the region is [30].…”

Section: The Indian Northeast: Background To the Conflictmentioning

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Comparing China and India’s Disputed Borderland Regions: Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir, and the Indian Northeast

Mukherjee

2015

East Asia

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INTRODUCTION:differences in the nature of the political systems of the two countries, (one being democratic and the other being a predominantly authoritarian state) the state policies directed towards these peripheral regions and the nature of these conflicts have been strikingly similar.Methodologically, the paper follows a bottom-up approach and emphasises on the voices of the ordinary people. The arguments put forward by the people are often not in keeping with the stories, and arguments put forward by the political elite. In depth interviews were carried out to further the arguments in the paper. The bottom-up approach was carried out by doing semistructured or non-directive interviews with people from these conflict zones. 'The least structured form of interviewing is the non-structured or non-directive interview. Here no pre-specified set of questions is employed, nor are the questions asked in a specified order' [1]. There is no schedule. 'With little or no direction from the interviewer, respondents are encouraged to relate their experiences, to describe whatever events seem significant to them, to provide their own definitions of their situations, and to reveal their opinions and attitudes as they see fit. The interviewer has a great deal of freedom to probe various areas and to raise specific queries during the course of the interview'[1]. This flexibility and the spontaneity with which the interviewees respond are most certainly some of the strengths of this method. Now let us first start with India, and then in the second half of the paper we will be looking at China.

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Section: The Indian Northeast: Background To the Conflictmentioning

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Comparing China and India’s Disputed Borderland Regions: Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir, and the Indian Northeast

Mukherjee

2015

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“…This is seen a way of fixing the geography of Partition and 'opening' the landlocked borderland to markets with apparently insatiable appetites for goods produced in Northeast states. As I have argued elsewhere (McDuie-Ra, 2009b), the NEV2020 agenda contains contradictory imperatives of promoting mobility across international borders while also seeking to further state (in this case central state) control of territory through formalising cross-border trade through legalised crossings, customs posts, permanent border demarcation, and border fencing.…”

Section: New India and Its Frontiermentioning

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“…And while evoking exceptionalism marks the gravity of abuses of sovereign power in Imphal by state and quasi-state actors, their power is not absolute, they are highly sensitive as to how they are portrayed, and they are engaged in contentious struggles to control of the city -some of which they lose. While I am not antithetical to the framing of Indian power in relation to its ethnic minority borderlands in this way myself, at least at a certain level (McDuie-Ra, 2009a, such an approach calls forth a singular coherent sovereignty that is difficult to locate on the ground. Further it constructs Manipur as a passive space, a depoliticized landscape of misery with few agents or acts of defiance, let alone endogenous sources of power.…”

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“…Within the vast quantity of literature on liberalisation in India there is little consideration of the borderland, where state presence appears firmly embedded in the security apparatus, systems of parallel governance, and strategic state-led development and economic dependency. Thus the push for liberalisation receives very little grounded analysis (see McDuie-Ra, 2009b).…”

Section: New India and Its Frontiermentioning

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“…Atal Vajpayee, the former Prime Minister of India (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004) and former Minister for External Affairs, proposed the rally. Vajpayee was a keen proponent of stronger connections between India and ASEAN members to improve economic prospects, to hedge Chinese influence, and to better secure the borderlands (Chatterjee, 2007;McDuie-Ra, 2009b;Yahya, 2003). Prior to the start of the first ASEANIndia rally a conference was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati.…”

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Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia -the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra-and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders), but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities.

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