Emerging Issues and Challenges in North-East India

ABOUT THE BOOK The book “Emerging Issues and Challenges in North-East India” highlights present up-and-coming issues and challenges of land-locked region of North-east India. The book includes all the up to date issues of North-east India with special reference to national register of citizenship, insurgency movement, ethnic conflict, strategic significance of North-east, environmental movement, political issues, untouchability issues, and the rights of indigenous people of this North-east region. The book will directly benefit for all the students and research scholars from the academic perspective. The book can be considered as a text book and a reference book for the subjects like Political Science, Public Administration and Contemporary Politics in North-East India. The book will be helpful to understand the various issues of North-east India in context of present existing scenario of this region. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jesmine Ahmed, currently teaching in the Department of Political Science Assam University, Diphu Campus as a Guest faculty. She is pursuing her Ph.D.in the same department. She has completed her M.A. in Political Science from Guwahati University and M.Phil. from Assam University. She has more than two years of teaching experience at Post-Graduate and Under Graduate level. She has qualified UGC-NET. Her area of interest is International Relations and Geo-Politics. She has written more than ten research articles in repute journals towards her credit. Rita Saikia is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Political Science, Assam University, Diphu Campus. She has completed her Master of Arts in Political Science from Dibrugarh University. She has published several articles on ethnicity, women empowerment, rural development, Indo- US relationship, Indo-Afghanistan relationship etc. She has also qualified State Eligibility Test conducted by North-East Region. Her area of research is Foreign Policy and International Relations. Dr. Niranjan Mohapatra currently teaching Political Science in Assam University, Silchar, (Diphu Campus). He has been awarded Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Hyderabad. He has ten years of teaching experience at Post Graduate level. He has successfully guided several research scholars for Ph.D. and M.Phil. He has published more than twenty research articles in repute journals and published one book on Indo-Russian Relations. His area of interest is International Relations, Strategic and Defence Studies. CONTENTS Preface . 7 Acknowledgements . 9 1. The Issues and Challenges of National Register of Citizens (NRC) Updation in Assam . 11 — Nilakshi Das 2. Environmental Movement in North-East: A Case Study of Pagladia Dam Movement in Assam . 33 — Geetashree Sarma, Dr. Niranjan Mohapatra 3. Trans-Border Insurgency in Northeast India: A Study . 47 — Bhaswati Sarmah 4. Globalization- A Paradigm Shift to the Development of North-East India: Myth & Reality . 59 — Rita Saikia 5. Relevance of India’s Strategic Partnership with ASEAN-Significance of North-East Region as the Key Area . 71 — Jesmine Ahmed 6. The Rise of BJP in Assam and Its Impact on Regional Politics . 83 — Tribedi Chutia 7. Untouchability: Does it Exists in the Assamese Society . 99 — Kakali Das 8. Socio-Economic Causes of the Ethnic Conflict in Assam . 111 — Mrs. Reetamoni Kakati 9. India’s North-east a Historical & Geographical Perspective Covering the Study Area of the Dhansiri (South) River Basin . 121 — Dr. Shashwati Nath 10. Problem Faced by Secondary School Students in Sonitpur and Lakhimpur Districts of Assam . 135 — Dr. Dipti Saikia 11. Women Empowerment in North-eastern Region . 145 — Noyanmoni Saikia Index . 155 The Title 'Emerging Issues and Challenges in North-East India written/authored/edited by Editors:- Jesmine Ahmed, Rita Saikia, Niranjan Mohapatra', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9789353242497 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 165 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is North East Studies. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-