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Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India

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Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India - Kikon, Dolly, and Sivaramakrishnan, K (Foreword by)
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The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they struggle to find peace and work. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon uses in-depth ...

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Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India 2019, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295743950

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Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India 2019, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295745039

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