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Interrogating development : state, displacement and popular resistance in North East India /

Hussain, Monirul, 1952-

Interrogating development : state, displacement and popular resistance in North East India / Monirul Hussain. - New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2008. - 174 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Sage studies on India's North East .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-169) and index.

Introduction -- Imposing development : introducing the incomplete dossier of displacement -- Hard-hitting reality : development-induced displacement of population in post-colonial Assam -- Development, dam and displacement : resistance from the threatened -- Conclusion : new politics of development : interface between the state and the people.

ISBN: 9780761935759 (paper back) 0761935754 (paper back) 9788178297361 (India-pbk.) 8178297361 (India-pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Internally displaced persons -- Social conditions.-- India -- Assam
Ethnic conflict -- India -- Assam.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Assam (India) -- Social conditions.
India, Northeastern -- Ethnic relations.

LC Class. No.: 362.87 / HUS

Dewey Class. No.: 362.87 / HUS [ Shelf 76]