Duncan McDuie-Ra is professor of Urban Sociology at University of Newcastle, Australia. His most recent sole-authored books are Borderland City in New India (2016), Debating Race in Contemporary India (2015), and Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail (2012). Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

• Maps, Glossary of Non-English Terms, Preface,Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I 2. New India, New Northeast 3. Space and hegemony in Aizawl and Imphal Part II 4. Look East: connecting to Asia 5. Look West: connecting to India 6. Plural cities, ethnocentric polities 7. Small spaces: creativity, intimacy, and belonging,Conclusion, References.