Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Remembering Bianca Son -- Introduction: Northeastern research entanglements -- Part I Historical and ethnographic encounters -- 1 Reading Fürer-Haimendorf in Northeast India -- 2 The role of informants in the construction of the Zo as the Chin, Lushai and the Kuki of Burma and India -- 3 Sutured landscapes: making of an imperial frontier in Tripura (1848-1854) -- 4 Portrait of a place: reflections about fieldwork from the foothills of Northeast India -- 5 Ethnographic study and cultural production in Sikkim -- Part II Politics of land and material resources -- 6 Hydro-dollar dreams: emergent local politics of large dams and small communities -- 7 Violence, agrarian change and the politics of autonomy in Assam -- 8 Naga art and their market through time: delocalisation, state control and globalisation -- 9 Youth fashion and the identity of resistance in Northeast India -- Part III In and out of the state -- 10 Decades of 'ethnic massacre' in Bodoland: the state and the framing of conflict in India's Northeast -- 11 Diversity and difference: the art of electioneering in Meghalaya -- 12 From the shackles of tradition: motherhood and women's agitation in Manipur -- 13 Mizo identity: the role of the Young Mizo Association (YMA) in Mizoram -- 14 Situating language, recognising multilingualism: linguistic identities and mother tongue attachment in Northeast India and the region -- Afterword: contested, vertical, fragmenting: de-partitioning 'Northeast India' studies -- Index