M. Amarjeet Singh is Professor and Honorary Director at the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, where he teaches courses on social conflict, and society and politics of India’s Northeast. His research interests include conflict studies, identity politics and migration studies. He has worked at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, and the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.

• Section I: Understanding Autonomy 1. The Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India: Emergence and Development Jangkhongam Doungel2. Revisiting Sixth Schedule and Demand for Separate States in Northeast India: A Paradox of Political AutonomyMayengbam Nandakishwor Singh3. State within a State: Analysing the Issues and Challenges of Autonomous Councils Ashutosh Tripathi and Gautam Kumar Section II: Autonomy and Electoral Politics 4. Contextualising Democratic Governance in Bodoland: Changes and ChallengesAnkur Jyoti Bhuyan, Tarun Gogoi and Partha Pratim Borah5. Challenging Predicaments of Electoral Politics of an Autonomous District Council:The case of Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD), AssamNironjoy Islary6. The Working of the Autonomous District Councils in Manipur in Theory and PracticeThangkhanlal NgaihteSection III: Traditional Institutions, Autonomy Movement and Cooperatives7. Traditional Institutions, State Recognition and Democracy in Sikkim: Reconciling Tradition with ModernityDurga Prasad Chhetri8. Subject and Citizen: The Autonomy Question and Dzumsa in SikkimSunil Pradhan 9. The Crisis within: Can the Autonomous District Councils survive in Meghalaya?Dhiraj Kumar Borkotoky10. Autonomy Movements of Bodos and Chutias of Assam: A Comparative StudyPallabi Deka and Tribedi Chutia11. The Trajectory from Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration: A Fragile Administrative Autonomy in DarjeelingKabindra Sharma, Sanghamitra Choudhury and Debojyoti Das12. Understanding Autonomy Movement of the Misings in AssamBhaskar Pegu13. Autonomy and Democratisation through Cooperatives: Change from WithinAloke N. Prabhu

M. Amarjeet Singh is Professor and Honorary Director at the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, where he teaches courses on social conflict, and society and politics of India’s Northeast. His research interests include conflict studies, identity politics and migration studies. He has worked at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, and the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.

• Section I: Understanding Autonomy 1. The Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India: Emergence and Development Jangkhongam Doungel2. Revisiting Sixth Schedule and Demand for Separate States in Northeast India: A Paradox of Political AutonomyMayengbam Nandakishwor Singh3. State within a State: Analysing the Issues and Challenges of Autonomous Councils Ashutosh Tripathi and Gautam Kumar Section II: Autonomy and Electoral Politics 4. Contextualising Democratic Governance in Bodoland: Changes and ChallengesAnkur Jyoti Bhuyan, Tarun Gogoi and Partha Pratim Borah5. Challenging Predicaments of Electoral Politics of an Autonomous District Council:The case of Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD), AssamNironjoy Islary6. The Working of the Autonomous District Councils in Manipur in Theory and PracticeThangkhanlal NgaihteSection III: Traditional Institutions, Autonomy Movement and Cooperatives7. Traditional Institutions, State Recognition and Democracy in Sikkim: Reconciling Tradition with ModernityDurga Prasad Chhetri8. Subject and Citizen: The Autonomy Question and Dzumsa in SikkimSunil Pradhan 9. The Crisis within: Can the Autonomous District Councils survive in Meghalaya?Dhiraj Kumar Borkotoky10. Autonomy Movements of Bodos and Chutias of Assam: A Comparative StudyPallabi Deka and Tribedi Chutia11. The Trajectory from Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration: A Fragile Administrative Autonomy in DarjeelingKabindra Sharma, Sanghamitra Choudhury and Debojyoti Das12. Understanding Autonomy Movement of the Misings in AssamBhaskar Pegu13. Autonomy and Democratisation through Cooperatives: Change from WithinAloke N. Prabhu

M. Amarjeet Singh is Professor and Honorary Director at the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, where he teaches courses on social conflict, and society and politics of India’s Northeast. His research interests include conflict studies, identity politics and migration studies. He has worked at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, and the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.

• Section I: Understanding Autonomy 1. The Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India: Emergence and Development Jangkhongam Doungel2. Revisiting Sixth Schedule and Demand for Separate States in Northeast India: A Paradox of Political AutonomyMayengbam Nandakishwor Singh3. State within a State: Analysing the Issues and Challenges of Autonomous Councils Ashutosh Tripathi and Gautam Kumar Section II: Autonomy and Electoral Politics 4. Contextualising Democratic Governance in Bodoland: Changes and ChallengesAnkur Jyoti Bhuyan, Tarun Gogoi and Partha Pratim Borah5. Challenging Predicaments of Electoral Politics of an Autonomous District Council:The case of Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD), AssamNironjoy Islary6. The Working of the Autonomous District Councils in Manipur in Theory and PracticeThangkhanlal NgaihteSection III: Traditional Institutions, Autonomy Movement and Cooperatives7. Traditional Institutions, State Recognition and Democracy in Sikkim: Reconciling Tradition with ModernityDurga Prasad Chhetri8. Subject and Citizen: The Autonomy Question and Dzumsa in SikkimSunil Pradhan 9. The Crisis within: Can the Autonomous District Councils survive in Meghalaya?Dhiraj Kumar Borkotoky10. Autonomy Movements of Bodos and Chutias of Assam: A Comparative StudyPallabi Deka and Tribedi Chutia11. The Trajectory from Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration: A Fragile Administrative Autonomy in DarjeelingKabindra Sharma, Sanghamitra Choudhury and Debojyoti Das12. Understanding Autonomy Movement of the Misings in AssamBhaskar Pegu13. Autonomy and Democratisation through Cooperatives: Change from WithinAloke N. Prabhu