| : Essays on Conflict in India’s Northeast and the Road to Peace in South Asia –edited by Wasbir Hussain. Spectrum Publications, Guwahati/New Delhi (2006), pages 175, Price 596 (ISBN 81-8344-018-5)
South Asia is among the world’s ethnic hotspots where groups of people are perennially engaged in the quest for identity or nationality formation, often taking recourse to violent armed uprisings against the states. India’s Northeast, wedged between Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China’s Tibet region, is a microcosm of all the problems and challenges facing South Asia today.
The book takes stock of the conflicts in South Asia as a whole, while going into the specific problems facing Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, besides the complex issues of insurgency and trans-border terror in India’s Northeast. It also looks at the prospects or the possibility of an economic integration of India’s far eastern frontier with the booming economies in the South Asian neighbourhood.
The writers, all well-known experts on the South Asian peace and conflict scenario, analyses the conflicts, detailing their various dimensions and documenting facts, both known and unknown, in perspective. The essays give readers a broad picture of the prevailing situation in South Asia and can be of help to peace-makers and governments alike as they embark on the road to peace. |
