![]() | Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India Subjects: Mineral industries -- India Northeastern; Natural resources -- Political aspects -- India Northeastern; Natural resources -- Social aspects -- India Northeastern; Citizenship -- India Northeastern; India Northeastern -- Politics and government; India; 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. Dolly Kikon is senior lecturer in the Anthropology and Development Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Life and Dignity: Women's Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur (Nagaland) and Experiences of Naga Women in Armed Conflict: Narratives from a Militarized Society . |
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