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Dia 16.1 for Website.Pmd DIALOGUE QUARTERLY Volume-16 No. 1 July-September, 2014 DIALOGUE QUARTERLY Editorial Advisory Board Mrinal Miri Jayanta Madhab Subscription Rates : For Individuals (in India) Single issue Rs. 30.00 Annual Rs. 100.00 Editor For 3 years Rs. 250.00 B.B. Kumar For Institutions: Consulting Editor Single Issue Rs. 60.00 in India, Abroad US $ 15 J.N. Roy Annual Rs. 200.00 in India, Abroad US $ 50 For 3 years Rs. 500.00 in India, Abroad US $ 125 All cheques and Bank Drafts (Account Payee) are to be made in the name of “ASTHA BHARATI”, Delhi. Advertisement Rates : Outside back-cover Rs. 25, 000.00 Per issue Inside Covers Rs. 20, 000.00 ,, Inner page coloured Rs. 15, 000.00 ,, Inner full page Rs. 10, 000.00 ,, Financial Assistance for publication received from Indian Council of Social Science Research. ASTHA BHARATI DELHI The views expressed by the contributors do not necessarily represent the view-point of the journal. Contents Editorial Perspective 7 Self-destructive Scholarship 1. North-East Scan Assam: The Signs of a Failed State 15 D. N. Bezboruah NGT Ban and Meghalaya’s Mining Scenario 18 Patricia Mukhim Sharmila and the Catch-22 Paradox 23 © Astha Bharati, New Delhi Pradip Phanjoubam 2. A Marxist Critique of the Modi Government’s Printed and Published by ICHR Nomination 28 Koenraad Elst Mrs. Lata Singh, IAS (Retd.) Secretary, Astha Bharati 3. An Instant World 36 B.G. Verghese Registered Office: 27/201 East End Apartments, 4. The North-East: Old Mindsets – New Opportunities 43 Mayur Vihar, Phase-I Extension, J. N. Roy Delhi-110096. 5. Seven Sisters: A Metaphor for Seven Fragments 52 Harekrishna Deka Working Office: 23/203 East End Apartments, 6. Banking in Assam 64 Mayur Vihar, Phase-I Extension, Amiya Sharma Delhi-110096 7. Federal Finance in India and Assam 71 Phone : 91-11-22712454 H. N. Das e-mail : [email protected] 8. Maoist Spread in North-East India and Linkages with web-site : www. asthabharati.org Region’s Insurgent Groups 79 Printed at : Nagri Printers, Naveen Shahdara, Delhi-110032. Wasbir Hussain DIALOGUE, Volume-16 No. 1 5 9. Need for Early Restoration of the Derailed Democratic Process in the North-Eastern Region 95 P. P. Shrivastav 10. Unorganised Manufacturing Sector of Assam: Its Size, Structure and Growth in the Post-Reform Period 103 Dilip Saikia Editorial Perspective 11. Resistance to British Power in the Hills of North-East India: Some Issues 117 Self-destructive Scholarship Amrendra Kr Thakur The Indian scholarship in the field of social sciences and humanities 12. It is All About Respect and Trust 129 has become self-destructive. This phenomena is visible both at national Bijoya Sawian and the regional levels, but more so in the case of the North-East 13. Can India Look East through the Stilwell Road? 133 region. The failures of our academic community, often working in the Jajati K. Pattnaik ‘denial mode,’ are too glaring. The scholars are obsessed with the colonial constructs, such as race, isolation, core-fringe conflict; they 14. Rammanohar Lohia and the North-East India 143 focus on assumed grievances; deny or ignore the linkages, especially A. C. Sinha when pan-Indian. They generate fear-psychosis by repeated reminder 15. Migration, Memory and Politics in North-East India 150 and emphasis on factors such as Siliguri bottleneck. Uncritical and blind acceptance of the views of the colonial scholars Sarah Hilaly is the greatest weakness of our social scientists, especially the historians 16. The Past as Present: Partition in Assam and the anthropologists. Bringing ‘race’ as a factor, in any and every politics during independence and beyond 160 kind of discourse, even about the biopic of a sports person, is also the Binayak Dutta outcome of the same malady. Culture and tradition illiteracy, among the academics, has increased leading to such trend. The obsession with 17. North-East Today: Tales of Illusion and Reality 173 race has promoted intra- and inter-region social distancing in the North- Sanjeeb Kakoty East India. The ethnic demands, to promote the interests of the few, 18. Negotiating Gender and Power : have led to further balkanization of already balkanized region; violent Women’s Activism in Contemporary Manipur 182 incidents due to ethnic cleansing attempts are increasing. It needs Rena Laisram emphasis that the negative role of the academics is also partly responsible for the malady. 19. Book-Review So far, Bollywood has produced only two films on the sports persons Little Known Fighters against the Raj 193 of our country; one on Milkha Singh and the other on Mary Kom Amrendra Kr. Thakur belonging to the Kom community, a Kuki-Chin tribe of Churachandpur district of Manipur. The lead actor of the biopic of the first film was a Muslim; that of the second was Priyanka Chopra a well-known actress. While none raised accusing finger on the selection of a Muslim for the role of a Sikh sports person, the biopic of the legendary boxer from Manipur did not go down well among the reviewers as Sentinel, Guwahati (September 6, 2014) reports. A write-up captioned Race and 6 DIALOGUE, Volume-16 No. 1 DIALOGUE, Volume-16 No. 1 7 prejudice on celluloid appearing in the Hindu (September 9, 2014), a “There can be no reasonable doubt that a great Aryan wave of very newspaper of the left (communist or Marxist, whatever you call it) pure blood passed through Manipur into Burma. Johnstone (My orientation, by a teacher of a university, dominated by the leftists, is Experience in Manipur and Naga Hills, p. 280) and Phayre (History of full of baseless axiomatic general statements. A critical perusal of the Burma, p. 3) also attest to that fact. The ample proof that great Aryan paper provides an insight on the degraded status of Indian Social wave, mentioned by Dun, did not pass without leaving its mark in Sciences. His approach misses out the larger and real picture that Mary Manipur, may be found in sharp Aryan features of many Meiteis, Kom is being celebrated and lauded all over the country irrespective of Tangkhul Nagas, Angami Nagas and the others, which I have personally her features, religion and the region, she comes from. She is important witnessed. Even Phizo has sharp Aryan features. for the country as the real story not Priyanka Chopra. The paper, published in a newspaper of left orientation by a teacher The paper-writer, A. Bimol Akoijam, a teacher at Jawaharlal Nehru of a university dominated by the scholars of leftist and colonial tradition, University, New Delhi, claims to be a political psychologist and social is full of baseless axiomatic general statements; the paper-writer is analyst. Critiquing the Bollywood film on the legendary pugilist, Akoijam thoroughly incapable of understanding India, its history, culture and the has pointed out Bollywood’s inability to cast an actor from a similar traditions. He even, I doubt, hardly understands Manipur, or even the ethnic or cultural group for the role of Mary Kom, which according to history, religion and the culture of his own community, the Meiteis. him, speaks of an issue going beyond the ‘cinema’ to the ‘race.’ Here, it needs mention that many scholars have the illusion that they According to him, ‘Bollywood’s consumers will not accept somebody know the North-East region, or even their community, simply due to who does not have the typical ‘Indian’ look to play Mary Kom’s role.’ their birth-linkages. The difficulty is that many of them are not prepared The question is: What is the basis of this broad and general statement? to accept their ignorance. How does he know that? Is it based on the data collected by fieldwork? For Akoijam, North-East India is politico-geographically South Can such general statements be taken as axiomatic? Are Indians really Asia, but racially and culturally South East Asia. He quotes Yogendra racists? Do they reciprocate when persons of the other States are Yadav in confirmation of his statement, as: if Yogendra Yadav is an mercilessly killed in Manipur and elsewhere in the North-East? Does authentic scholar knowing the North-East, or even cultural and religious Indian tradition support race? The answer to all these questions, India. Yogendra Yadav, and persons like Akoijam, should know that, in obviously, is an emphatic ‘No.’ spite of the communication gap due to faulty colonial education, average Akoijam talks about typical ‘Indian look;’ he also mentions about illiterate India distinguishes between the Chinese and the North-Eastern the racial “othering” playing out sharply in the case of India’s North- Indians. The fact, which Akoijam and JNU type scholars must know in East. In reality, such racial distinction and “othering” is a myth created this case, is that the cultural and religious India in South East Asia by colonial scholars and strengthened and made acceptable by the JNU preceded the history of Manipur. It is significant, and the fact cannot type Communist scholarship. Distinct North-Eastern ‘look’ is nowhere be ignored, that the statue of Lord Vishnu installed by Manipuri king, to be found in the North-East, which even some of the colonial scholars, Khyamba (1467-1507) in the oldest existing temple of Manipur at such as Hutton, deny. Hutton writes about the physical features of the Bishnupur came from Myanmar, and not from the West. Manipur was, people of Khonoma, the village of Naga rebel leader, Phizo: and remains, a part of India Central-Asia religio-cultural continuum. “It would be impossible to give any general description of the type Akoijam, in his paper, mentions about Irom Sharmila’s saga and of Angami features, as it varies from village to village and even from the human tragedies of the protracted conflicts in India’s North-East house to house in a remarkable degree.
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