About the Book: State and Society In Northeast India : History Politics and The
Everyday
State vs. Society in Northeast India: History, Politics and the Everyday looks
at a state as an entity that does not operate strictly as a rational, legal and
administrative organization. State in the Northeast region is very much shaped
by the social, economic and political practices on the ground. Using archival
and ethnographic evidences, the book questions notions of region and border as
fixed spaces. A state, in the process of governing society, produces itself
through formal and informal practices on the ground, and the book argues that
Northeast India is a