Kidelezo Kikhi is Chair Professor, Dr. Ambedkar Chair, and Professor at the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Assam.Amiya Kumar Das is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at Tezpur University, Assam.Piyashi Dutta has PhD in Sociology from Tezpur University, Assam, and is currently affiliated with the Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Noida, as Assistant Professor.

• Foreword by Virginius XaxaIntroduction: Indigeneity, Citizenship and the StateKedilezo Kikhi, Amiya Kumar Das and Piyashi Dutta1. ‘We the People’: Interrogating Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State—A Northeast PerspectiveK.C. Baral2. Who in Northeast India are Indigenous?H. Srikanth3. What Can a Liberal State Reasonably Expect of Its Citizens? Some Reflections in a Liberal DemocracyAke Sander4. ‘Bharat Mata’ and Its Imagination: Multiplicity and Divergence in the Imagination of the Nation in the Multi-Ethnic SituationPartha Pratim Borah5. Indigeneity, Indigenous Feminism and Legal Pluralism: Emerging Women’s Resistance and a Critique of Gender Theme in Ethnographic Narratives of Northeast India N.K. Das6. Divided Under the Sun: Hill and Non-Hill Identity in MizoramN. William Singh7. Land as Foundation of Identity: The Case of the Brus in MizoramMelvil Pereira and Furzee Kashyap6 Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State: Perspectives from India’s Northeast 8. Land Rights, Identity and Customary Laws Amidst Angami and Konyak Nagas: A Comparative Cross-Referencing Kedilezo Kikhi and Jagritee Ghosh9. Assamese and Its ‘Others’: Making of a School Language in a Multilingual Society Nirmali Goswami10. Rights and Justice to Tea Tribes of Assam: Colonial and Post-colonial Narrative Soumen Ray and Lalhriatchiani11. The Line of Difference: Indigeneity and Ethnicity in Post-colonial Assam Prafulla Kr. Nath12. Nationalism and Social Exclusion: The Making of Ethnic Identity Movements in AssamRansaigra DaimaryList of ContributorsIndex

Kidelezo Kikhi is Chair Professor, Dr. Ambedkar Chair, and Professor at the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Assam.Amiya Kumar Das is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at Tezpur University, Assam.Piyashi Dutta has PhD in Sociology from Tezpur University, Assam, and is currently affiliated with the Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Noida, as Assistant Professor.

• Foreword by Virginius XaxaIntroduction: Indigeneity, Citizenship and the StateKedilezo Kikhi, Amiya Kumar Das and Piyashi Dutta1. ‘We the People’: Interrogating Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State—A Northeast PerspectiveK.C. Baral2. Who in Northeast India are Indigenous?H. Srikanth3. What Can a Liberal State Reasonably Expect of Its Citizens? Some Reflections in a Liberal DemocracyAke Sander4. ‘Bharat Mata’ and Its Imagination: Multiplicity and Divergence in the Imagination of the Nation in the Multi-Ethnic SituationPartha Pratim Borah5. Indigeneity, Indigenous Feminism and Legal Pluralism: Emerging Women’s Resistance and a Critique of Gender Theme in Ethnographic Narratives of Northeast India N.K. Das6. Divided Under the Sun: Hill and Non-Hill Identity in MizoramN. William Singh7. Land as Foundation of Identity: The Case of the Brus in MizoramMelvil Pereira and Furzee Kashyap6 Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State: Perspectives from India’s Northeast 8. Land Rights, Identity and Customary Laws Amidst Angami and Konyak Nagas: A Comparative Cross-Referencing Kedilezo Kikhi and Jagritee Ghosh9. Assamese and Its ‘Others’: Making of a School Language in a Multilingual Society Nirmali Goswami10. Rights and Justice to Tea Tribes of Assam: Colonial and Post-colonial Narrative Soumen Ray and Lalhriatchiani11. The Line of Difference: Indigeneity and Ethnicity in Post-colonial Assam Prafulla Kr. Nath12. Nationalism and Social Exclusion: The Making of Ethnic Identity Movements in AssamRansaigra DaimaryList of ContributorsIndex

Kidelezo Kikhi is Chair Professor, Dr. Ambedkar Chair, and Professor at the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Assam.Amiya Kumar Das is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at Tezpur University, Assam.Piyashi Dutta has PhD in Sociology from Tezpur University, Assam, and is currently affiliated with the Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Noida, as Assistant Professor.

• Foreword by Virginius XaxaIntroduction: Indigeneity, Citizenship and the StateKedilezo Kikhi, Amiya Kumar Das and Piyashi Dutta1. ‘We the People’: Interrogating Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State—A Northeast PerspectiveK.C. Baral2. Who in Northeast India are Indigenous?H. Srikanth3. What Can a Liberal State Reasonably Expect of Its Citizens? Some Reflections in a Liberal DemocracyAke Sander4. ‘Bharat Mata’ and Its Imagination: Multiplicity and Divergence in the Imagination of the Nation in the Multi-Ethnic SituationPartha Pratim Borah5. Indigeneity, Indigenous Feminism and Legal Pluralism: Emerging Women’s Resistance and a Critique of Gender Theme in Ethnographic Narratives of Northeast India N.K. Das6. Divided Under the Sun: Hill and Non-Hill Identity in MizoramN. William Singh7. Land as Foundation of Identity: The Case of the Brus in MizoramMelvil Pereira and Furzee Kashyap6 Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State: Perspectives from India’s Northeast 8. Land Rights, Identity and Customary Laws Amidst Angami and Konyak Nagas: A Comparative Cross-Referencing Kedilezo Kikhi and Jagritee Ghosh9. Assamese and Its ‘Others’: Making of a School Language in a Multilingual Society Nirmali Goswami10. Rights and Justice to Tea Tribes of Assam: Colonial and Post-colonial Narrative Soumen Ray and Lalhriatchiani11. The Line of Difference: Indigeneity and Ethnicity in Post-colonial Assam Prafulla Kr. Nath12. Nationalism and Social Exclusion: The Making of Ethnic Identity Movements in AssamRansaigra DaimaryList of ContributorsIndex