Chandan Kumar Sharma is Professor of Sociology at Tezpur University, Assam, India. Reshmi Banerjee is a political scientist based in London, UK, and is currently a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India.

• Introduction – Periphery Calling: Layers of Divergence Chandan Kumar Sharma and Reshmi Banerjee Part 1: Discord around Development 1. The Contemporary Process of Economic Development, State Power and Lepcha Resistance in Sikkim: A Macro View Binod Bhattarai 2. Concentrated Development of Specific Areas vis-à-vis Underdevelopment in Peripheral Areas of Meghalaya Kitdor W. Kharbuli 3. Hydrocarbon Exploration in Manipur: Resource Conflict and Community Response Shreya Saha 4. Dispossession Due to Development: A Case Study of the Tiwa Tribe of Central Assam Dola Borkataki Part 2: Issues of Identity 5. State and Customary Practices: Locating the Power and Authority of the Konyak Anghs Jagritee Ghosh 6. Ethnicity, Immigration and Conflict: The Case of Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) Cihnnita Baruah 7. ‘Outsiders’ in Bodoland: Categories of Narratives and Practice Saba Sharma 8. Politics of Land and Citizenship in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh Fariba Alamgir Part 3: Borders and Beyond 9. Accusations and Belonging in the Southwestern Borderland of Mizoram N. William Singh 10. Ethnography in the Assam–Nagaland Border: Narratives of Conflict Prafulla Kr. Nath 11. Ambiguity, Conflict and Compliance: Myanmar’s Woes Meet North East India Reshmi Banerjee 12. Crossing over the Patkai Mountains: Ethnographic Memoirs as Ruptures and Flows Kaustubh Deka