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BOOKS

Alagappa, M. (ed.) Asian security order: instrumental and normative features. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Ao, Lanunungsang A. From Phizo to Muivah: the Naga national question in north-east India. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 2002.

ASEAN Secretariat. Report of the ASEAN-India expert group on trade and investment cooperation. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, 1995.

Ayoob, M. India and Southeast Asia: Indian perceptions and policies. London and New York: Routledge, 1990.

Banerjee, Dipankar. Myanmar and north east India. New Delhi: Delhi Policy Group, 1997.

Baruah, Sanjib. Between south and southeast Asia: northeast India and look east policy (Ceniseas Paper 4). Guwahati: Centre for Northeast India, South and Southeast Asia Studies, 2004.

Baruah, Sanjib. Durable disorder: understanding the politics of northeast India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Baruah, Sanjib. India against itself: Assam and the politics of nationality. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Bhattacharya, Harihar. Communism in Tripura. Delhi: Ajanta Publishers, 1999.

Bhaumik, Subir. Insurgent cross fire: north-east India. New Delhi: Lancer Publishers, 1996.

Biswas, Prasenjit. Nations from below and rebel consciousness: the ‘new’ subaltern emergence of north east India. In Ranju Dhamala and Sukalpa Bhattacharjee (eds.), Human rights and insurgency: north east India. Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2002.

Brara, N. Vijaylakshmi. Politics, society and cosmology in India’s north east. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Chassie, Charles. The Naga imbroglio: a personal perspective. Kohima, Nagaland: Standard Printers and Publishers, 1999.

Chatterjee, Suhas. Making of Mizoram: role of Laldenga. Volumes 1 & 2. New Delhi: M.D. Publications, 1994.

Chaube, S.K. Hill politics in northeast India. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1999.

Das, Gurudas and R.K. Purkayastha (eds.) Border trade: north-east India and neighbouring countries. New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2000.

Datta, P.S. (ed.) North east and the Indian state: paradoxes of a periphery. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1995.

Dutta, Arup Kumar. The Brahmaputra. New Delhi: National Book Trust, 2001.

Dzever, Sam and Jacques Jaussaud. China and India: economic performance and business strategies of firms in the mid 1990s. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Egreteau, Renaud. Wooing the generals: India’s new Burma policy. New Delhi: Author Press, Centre De Sciences Humaines, 2003.

Fink, Christina. Living silence: Burma under military rule. New York: Zed Books, 2001.

Garver, John. Protracted contest: Sino-Indian rivalry in the twentieth century. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ghosal, Baladas (ed.) ASEAN and south Asia: a development experience. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1998.

Ghose, Sanjoy. Sanjoy’s Assam: diaries and writings of Sanjoy Ghose (edited and with an afterword by Sumita Ghose). New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

Ghosh, Subir. Frontier travails – Northeast: the politics of a mess. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2001.

Gogoi, Puspadhar. The Tai of northeast India. Dhemaji: Chumpra Publications, 1996.

Gopalakrishnan, R. Northeast India: land, economy and peoples. Delhi: Har Anand Publications, 1991.

Gordon, Sandy and Stephen Henningham (eds.) India looks east: an emerging power and its Asia Pacific neighbors (Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence, 111) Canberra, Australia: Strategic and Defence Studies, Australian National University, 1995.

Grare, Frederic and Amitabh Mattoo (eds.) India and ASEAN: the politics of India’s look east policy. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 2001.

Hazarika, Sanjoy. Rites of passage: border crossings, imagined homelands, India’s east and Bangladesh. Delhi: Penguin Books, 2000.

Hazarika, Sanjoy. Strangers of the mist: tales of war and peace from India’s northeast. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1995.

India-ASEAN partnership in an era of globalization: reflections by eminent persons. New Delhi: RIS for Developing Countries and Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002.

Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship. Border trade with Bangladesh and Myanmar: pre investment feasibility report. Guwahati: North Eastern Development Finance Corporation, 2001.

Iralu, Kaka D. Nagaland and India: the blood and the tears. Kohima: Kaka D. Iralu, 2000.

Jacobs, Julian, Alan MacFarlane, Sarah Harrison and Anita Herle. The Nagas: the hill people of northeast India – society, culture and the colonial encounter. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990.

Jenkins, Nigel. Through the green door: travels among the Khasis. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2001.

Kakoty, Sanjeeb. Technology, production and social formation in the evolution of the Ahom state. New Delhi: Regency Publications, 2003.

Kalam, Abul. Subregionalism in Asia: ASEAN and SAARC experiences. Dhaka: University Press, 2001.

Kratoska, Paul, Remco Raben and Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds.) Locating southeast Asia: post-colonial paradigms and predicaments. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2004.

Kumar, Nagesh (ed.) Towards an Asian economic community: vision of a new Asia. New Delhi: RIS for Developing Countries and Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004.

Kyi, Aung San Suu. The voice of hope. London: Penguin Books, 1997.

Lal Dena (ed.) History of modern Manipur 1826-1949. New Delhi: Orbit Publishers-Distributors, 1991.

Lasuh, Wetshokhrolo (ed.) The Naga chronicle (complied by V.K. Nuh). New Delhi: Regency Publications, 2002.

Lintner, Bertil. Land of jade: a journey from India through northern Burma to China. Bangkok: White Orchid Press, 1996.

Ludden, David. Where is Assam? using geographical history to locate current social realities [Ceniseas Paper 1]. Guwahati: Centre for Northeast India, South and Southeast Asia Studies, 2004.

Luthra, P.N. Constitutional and administrative growth of Arunachal Pradesh. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, 1993.

Misra, Udayon. The periphery strikes back: challenges to the nation-state in Assam and Nagaland. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2000.

Morey, Stephen. Tai languages of Assam, a progress report – does anything remain of the Tai Ahom language? In David and Maya Bradley (eds.), Language maintenance for endangered languages: an active approach. London: Curzon Press, 2002.

Murayama, Mayumi, Kyoko Inoue and Sanjoy Hazarika. Sub-regional relations in the eastern south Asia: with special focus on India’s north eastern region (Joint Research Program Series No. 133). Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 2005.

Nag, Sajal. Contesting marginality: ethnicity, insurgency and subnationalism in north-east India. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002.

Nepram, Binalakshmi. South Asia’s fractured frontier: armed conflict, narcotics and small arms proliferation in India’s north east. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 2002.

Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing and Robin S. Ngangom (eds.) Anthology of contemporary poetry from the northeast. Shillong: North Eastern Hill University Publications, 2003.

North-East India: a bibliography. New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2002.

Phukon, Girin (ed.) Political dynamics of northeast India: essays in honour of Professor Barrister Pakem. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 2000.

Prakash, Shri, Vanita Roy and Sanjay Ambedkar (eds.) India and ASEAN: economic partnership in the 1990s and future prospects. New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 1996.

Ramesh, Jairam. Making sense of Chindia: reflections on China and India. New Delhi: India Research Press, 2005.

Ray, Animesh. India – the land and the people: Mizoram. New Delhi: National Book Trust of India, 1993.

Ray, Jayant Kumar and Prabir De (eds.) Promotion of trade and investment in eastern south Asia sub-region. New Delhi: Bookwell, 2004.

Ray, Syamal Kumar. India’s north-east and the travails of Tripura. Kolkata: Minerva Publications for Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2003.

Reddy, K. Raja (ed.) India and ASEAN: foreign policy dimensions for the twenty first century. New Delhi: New Century, 2005.

Research and Information Systems. India’s border trade with select neighbouring countries. New Delhi: Research and Information Systems, 1996.

Sachdeva, Gulshan. Economy of the north-east: policy, present conditions and future possibilities. Delhi: Konark Publishers, 2000.

Saikia, Yasmin. Assam and India: fragmented memories, cultural identity, and the Tai-Ahom struggle. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005.

Sanajaoba, Naorem (ed.) Manipur: past and present. (2 Volumes) New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1988 and 1991.

Sarma, Atul and Pradeep Kumar Mehta. Exploring Indo-ASEAN economic partnership in a globalising world. New Delhi: Bookwell, 2002.

Shand, Mark. River dog: a journey down the Brahmaputra. London: Little Brown, 2002.

Singh, Bhupinder. Autonomy movements and federal India. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2002.

Singh, N. Lokendra. The unquiet valley: society, economy and politics in Manipur (1891-1980). New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1998.

Sridharan, Kripa. The ASEAN region in India’s foreign policy. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1996.

Subba, T.B. and G.C. Ghosh. The anthropology of north-east India. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003.

Thant, Myint-U. The making of modern Burma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Tucker, Shelby. Among insurgents: walking through Burma. New Delhi: Pengiun Books, 2000.

Tucker, Shelby. Burma: the curse of independence. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2002.

Van Ham, Peter and Aglaja Stirn. The seven sisters of India: tribal worlds between Tibet and Burma. Munich: Prestel Publishing and Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2001.

Vashum, R. Naga’s right to self determination: anthropological-historical perspectives. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 2000.

Verghese, B.G. India’s north east resurgent: ethnicity, insurgency, governance, and development. New Delhi: Konark Publishers, 1996.

Verghese, B.G. Reorienting India: the new geo-politics of Asia. New Delhi: Konark Publishers, 2001.

ARTICLES

Acharya, Amitav. Southeast Asia: imagining the region. ‘Himal South Asian’ 16 (1): January 2003.

Akoijam, A. Bimol and T. Tarunkumar. Armed forces (special powers) act 1958: disguised war and its subversions. ‘Eastern Quarterly’ (New Delhi) 3(1): April-June 2005.

Barbora, Sanjay. Ethnic politics and land use: genesis of conflicts in India’s northeast. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 37(13): 30 March 2002.

Batayal, A. ASEAN’s quest for security: a theoretical explanation. ‘International Studies’ 41(4): October-December 2004.

Dasgupta, Anindita. Small arms proliferation in India’s north-east: a case study of Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 36(1): 6 January 2001.

Dasgupta, Anindita. Tripura’s brutal cul de sac. ‘Himal South Asian’ (Kathmandu) 14(12): December 2001.

Dasgupta, J. Community, authenticity and autonomy: insurgency and institutional development in India’s north-east. ‘The Journal of Asian Studies’ 56(2): May 1997.

Friedberg, Aaron. Ripe for rivalry: prospects for peace in a multipolar Asia. ‘International Security’ 18(3): Winter 1993.

Hemmer, C. and P.K. Katzenstein. Why is there no NATO in Asia? collective identity, regionalism and the origins of multilateralism. ‘International Organization’ 56(3): August 2002.

Hixley, T. ASEAN’s prospective security role: moving beyond India-China fixation. ‘Contemporary Southeast Asia’ (Singapore: Institute for South East Asian Studies) 9(3): December 1987.

Huang, Yasheng and Tarun Khanna. Can India overtake China?’ ‘Foreign Policy’ 137: July-August 2003.

Keenleyside, T. Nationalist Indian attitudes towards Asia: a troublesome legacy for post independence Indian foreign policy. ‘Pacific Affairs’ 55(2): Summer 1982.

Kikon, Dolly. Experiences of Naga women in armed conflict situation: narratives from a militarized society. ‘WISCOMP Perspective’ 11: New Delhi: 2004.

Lim, R. The ASEAN regional cooperation: building on sand. ‘Contemporary Southeast Asia’ 20(2): 1998.

Malik, M. China-India relations in post-Soviet era: the continuing rivalry. ‘The China Quarterly’ 42: June 1995.

Malik, M. Sino-Indian rivalry in Myanmar: implications for regional security. ‘Contemporary Southeast Asia’ 16(2): September 1994.

Mansingh, S. India-China relations in post cold war era. ‘Asian Survey’ 34(3): March 1994.

Misra, Udayon. Naga peace talks: high hopes and hard realities. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 15 February 2003.

Muni, S. India and southeast Asia: challenges and opportunities. ‘Contemporary Southeast Asia’ 19(2): September 1997.

Nair, Vijay K. The Chinese threat: an Indian perspective. ‘China Brief’ 1(9): November 2001.

Oinam, Anand. Look east policy and Manipur. ‘The Sangai Express’ (Imphal, Manipur): 27 December 2003.

Ojendal, J. Regionalism in southeast Asia under unilateral pressure. ‘International Organization’ 80(3): May 2004.

Panda, S. India-China cooperation: major determinants. ‘Indian Journal of Political Science’ 64(1-2): January-June 2003.

Pommaret, Francoise. Ancient trade partners: Bhutan, Cooch Bihar and Assam (18th-19th centuries). ‘Journal Asiatique’ 287: 1999 (English translation is available online: http://www.bhutanstudies. org.bt/journal/vol2no1/v2n1ancienttrade.pdf)

Prabhakara, M.S. Is north-east India landlocked? ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 39(42): 16 October 2004.

Rahman, Fazal-ur. India’s evolving security relations with southeast and east Asia. ‘Strategic Studies’ (Islamabad) 21(2): Summer 2000.

Robb, Peter. The colonial state and constructions of Indian identity: an example on the northeast frontier in the 1880s. ‘Modern Asian Studies’ 31(2): May 1997.

Sahani, V. From security in Asia to Asian security. ‘International Studies’ 41(3): July-September 2004.

Selth, Andrew. Burma and the strategic competition between India and China. ‘Journal of Strategic Studies’ 19(2): June 1996.

Sen, Rahul, Mukul Asher and Ramkishen S. Rajan. ASEAN-India economic relations: current status and future prospects. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 39(29): 17 July 2004.

Sharma, Harvir. China’s interests in Indian ocean rim countries and India’s maritime security. ‘India Quarterly’ 58(4): October-December 2001.

Shimray, Ungshungmi. Ethnicity and socio-political assertion. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 36(39): 29 September 2001.

Shimray, Ungshungmi. Socio-political unrest in the region called north-east India. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 39(42): 16 October 2004.

Sidhu, Waheguru Pal Singh and Jing-Dong Yuan. Resolving the Sino-Indian border dispute: building confidence through cooperative monitoring. ‘Asian Survey’ 41(2): March-April 2001.

Singh, K.R. India and the Indian ocean. ‘South Asian Survey’ 4(1): January-June 1997.

Sridharan, K. Wooing the generals: India’s new Burma policy. ‘Contemporary Southeast Asia’ 26(2): August 2004.

Sundarraman, S. Politics and security in south east Asia: prospects for India-ASEAN cooperation. ‘International Studies’ 41(4): October-December 2004.

Suryanarayana, P.S. Emerging Asian equations. ‘Frontline’ 20(22): 25 October-7 November 2003.

Terwiel, B.J. Revivalism in northeast India: a case of the Ahoms. ‘Indian Journal of Tai Studies’ (Institute of Tai Studies and Research, Moranhat, Assam) 2: March 2002.

Thornton, T. India adrift: the search for mooring in a new world order. ‘Asian Survey’ 32(12): December1992.

Verghese, B.G. Borders matter more than boundaries from the north-east looking out. ‘Man and Society: A Journal of North East Studies’ 1(1): Spring 2004.

Vertzberger, Y. India’s border conflict with China: a perceptual analysis. ‘Journal of Contemporary History’ 17(4): October 1982.

Yahya, F. India and southeast Asia revisited. ‘Contemporary Southeast Asia’ 25(1): April 2003.

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