In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state's response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life.

• List of Abbreviations


• Preface


• 1. Introduction: The Shadows of Naga Insurgency


• 2. Clan, Village, Tribe, and Naga Nation


• 3. Ceasefire as Politics: Factions, Taxes, and National Workers


• 4. Seeing the State: Violence, 'Seduction', and Neo-Tribal Developmentalism


• 5. Corruption and the Moral Economy of State Resources


• 6. The State as a Resource: The Quest for Frontier Nagaland


• 7. Performing Democracy in Nagaland


• 8. Epilogue: Life Beyond the Shadows of Naga Insurgency


• Bibliography


• Endnotes


• Index


• About the Author

Jelle J.P. Wouters studied anthropology in Amsterdam, Oxford, and Shillong. Presently he is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. Before that, he taught at Sikkim Central University and Eberhard Karls University. Over the past years, he has done ethnographic and historical research in the Naga highlands, writing about vernacular democracy and elections, political conflict, kinship and social bonds, and social history. He has published a dozen articles on Nagaland and India's Northeast in Contributions to Indian Sociology, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Studies in History, Asian Anthropology, Economic and Political Weekly, among others.