About the Book: Developmentalism as Strategy
Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on Indias
North East critically examines the post-colonial developmental trajectory of the
Indian State at its northeastern periphery. Due to its unique historical
geography, Indias North East has been systematically marginalized and was
imagined as underdeveloped. The dominant narrative of Indias economic
nationalism has largely acted as a strategy within the North East in the context
of resource appropriation and national security, and producing new arrangements
of knowledge, power and practices. Adopting a methodological approach of
interdisciplinarity, this book attempts to understand the exceptions to Indias
dominant development policy as applied in the North East. In