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International Seminar
Writing Northeast India: New Historical Perspectives
Jan 2009
Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi, India
Writing a history of India’s Northeast has always been fraught with problems, its `hidden-ness’ from `mainstream’ discourse both acknowledged and disavowed. The territorial and cultural framework adopted has often been too reified and static. Historical writings on the Northeast, micro and macro, have also tended to follow an evolutionist – empirical paradigm, in which the colonial encounter has received primary focus. Some of these difficulties stem from the multiple ethnicities of the region, the defining lines for which must also constitute the subject of historical enquiry.
We hope for papers which draw creatively upon different disciplines but with a strong historical contextualisation. Contributions from all periods of specialization, including the post-independence decades are welcome. We suggest that an appraisal of old and new historical approaches to this region, their strengths, weaknesses and ‘silences’ could provide a linking theme between the different papers, and a starting point for sustained engagement.
• The historical construction of the Northeast as a region within and without: connections across boundaries
• Religious encounters, religious/spiritual movements: belief, practices, interactions
• Problematizing the colonial archive
• Environmental, ecological histories of the Northeast
• Post-independence constructions of Northeast India
• War, violence, and the politics of domination
• Insider/outsider: questions of labour and migration, ascribed and self-inscribed identities
• `Tribal’ identity and debates about the modern
• Class and gender: social norms and debates in the public sphere
• `Discovering’ the north-east: travels and encounters
• Political topographies: state formation and reformation
Please send in titles and one page abstracts latest by 15th September, 2008. We will then inform you shortly about the acceptance of your paper. Please address all communication to:
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Organising Committee: Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya, Prof Bhagwan Josh, Dr. Indivar Kamtekar, Dr. Radhika Singha, Dr. Joy Pachuau
Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi – 110 067. India
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