Reconceptualizing an Ethnic Life-World
Preface
Reconceptualizing an Ethnic Life-World
Return of the Native
The Native and the Nation: Jawaharlal Nehru-Verrier Elwin′s
Philosophical Anthropology
Insurgency as Counter-Hegemonic Struggle in North-East India
Shades of ′Colonialism′: Contextualizing United Liberation Front of
Assam (ULFA)
Nations-From-Below: An Interpretation of Life and Politics
Rethinking India′s North-East: Within and Beyond Life-Worlds
References
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Prasenjit Biswas is Reader in the Department of Philosophy at the
North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. A Ph.D. in
Philosophy from the North Eastern Hill University, he has been
Reader, Assam University, Silchar (2004–05); Assistant Professor in
the Department of Philosophy at the Indian Institute of Guwahati,
Guwahati (2003–04); Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Mumbai (2001–03); and Lecturer at the
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (1998–2001).
He has authored The Post-modern Controversy: Understanding Richard
Rorty, Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas (Rawat, 2004) and
co-authored Political Economy of Underdevelopment in North-East
India (Akansha, 2004). He has co-edited Peace in India’s Northeast:
Meaning, Metaphor and Method (ICSSR-NERC and Regency, 2006). He has
also published a number of papers in journals and contributed
chapters to edited books.
Chandan Suklabaidya is Assistant Teacher of Biology at the Town
High School in Silchar, Assam. He has conducted extensive fieldwork
studies on Hmar, Ao and Ahom villages and on the tea garden
diaspora of Assam. He is currently in the process of collating
these field notes into two manuscripts entitled Autobiography of
Hmarkhawlien: A First Person Essay and Ahom Death Rituals:
Observations on Select Villages of Upper Assam. He has presented
papers on the subjects in national and international conferences. A
Dalit activist, he has written a volume of poems and collected oral
literature from the untouchables in Assam’s southern districts. A
nature lover, he has also discovered tree fossils in Lakhipur and
the North Cachar Hills.
It analyses the cultural and political determinants of ethnic and
identity-oriented struggles in India’s North-east, as well as the
cultural politics of ethnic mobilisation in the region.
*Asian Age*
This book is different in its overall argumentations and should be
read for its clarity of thoughts and careful handling of the ethnic
life-worlds in North-East India.
*Strategic Analysis*
The book draws upon the phenomenological notion of the life-world
to understand the culturally-embedded construction of communities,
for whom the lived experience of cultural politics constitutes
their identity.
*The Times of India*
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