Linking India and Eastern Neighbours

H. Srikanth is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India. His research has primarily focused on issues concerning ethnicity, indigenous people and the political economy of Northeast India. Dr Srikanth was awarded the Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research Fellowship to work on Native Indians in British Columbia. His publications include Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: Conflict and Reconciliation in Canada and India (2010) and the co-edited volumes Vision for Meghalaya: On and Beyond Inner Line Permit (2014) and Ethnicity and Political Economy in Northeast India (2016). He has also published many research papers in such journals as International Studies, Economic & Political Weekly and Man and Society. During 2012–2017, he was the editor of the NEHU journal. Munmun Majumdar is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, NEHU, Shillong, India. She completed her MA, MPhil and PhD at the School of International Relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU), Delhi. She was awarded the UGC Research Awards (earlier known as Career Award and National Fellow) for Post-Doctoral Research. She had been a Visiting Professor to University of Yangon, Myanmar, and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and an Associate at Institute of Advance Study, Shimla. She has published three books and many research papers as book chapters and journal articles in journals such as Strategic Analysis, India Quarterly, Indonesian Quarterly, and Asian Affairs. Her areas of interest are Southeast Asian studies and international politics.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: India’s Relations with Neighbours: Politics of Development in NERNortheast India as Engine of India’s Growth: Reorienting the Act East Policy Goals - Mahendra P. LamaPolitical Economy of Road Infrastructure in India’s Northeast since Liberalization - Rakhee BhattacharyaIrritants in India–Nepal Relations and Potential Benefits of Greater Cooperation - Bishnu Dev PantIndo-Bhutanese Relations: Evolution and Changing Contexts - Yedzin W. TobgayBangladesh and Northeast India: Planning Communication Links under GATT Article - V Abu Hena Reza Hasan and Sayada Jannatun NaimYunnan and Northeast India: Chinese Perspective on Sub-regional Development - Hu XiaowenThe Northeast and Myanmar: India–Myanmar Engagement in the Modi Years - Munmun MajumdarTrade in Pre-colonial Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet - Amrendra Kumar ThakurReviving Border Trade and Tourism along Nathu La in Sikkim - Dechen BhutiaTripura–Bangladesh Borderlands: Socio-economic Significance of Border Haats - Suparna BhattacharjeeMeghalaya–Bangladesh Border Trade: A Study of the Balat–Sunamganj Haat - Rakhal Kumar PurkayasthaPART II Border Crossing and Inter-Community Relations: Cooperation and ConflictNepali/Gorkha Settlers in Northeast India: Colonial Encounters and Post-colonial Dilemmas - Tejimala Gurung NagBurmese Indians: Growth of Burmese Nationalism and Ethnic Discrimination - Emdorini ThangkhiewReturnees and Refugees from Burma to India: Differing State Responses - Saurabh KaushikDrug Trafficking in and through Myanmar and Manipur - H. Srikanth and T. T. HaokipUnderstanding the Kukis’ Opposition to Fencing of the Indo-Myanmar Border - T. T. Haokip and H. SrikanthBorders That Divide: Naga Ethnoscape and Idea of Supranational Citizenship - Jelle J. P. WoutersChin Migration to Mizoram: Ethnic Affinity and Changing Perceptions - R. K. Satapathy and P. C. LalthansiamiIndex