"Frontier India and the North East" conference at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am on 1st & 2nd February 2013

Time : 9:00 am, click here to view the schedule

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
All are welcome but advance intimation will be much appreciated as it will help us with arrangements including lunch.
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Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a ‘Frontier India and the North East’ conference in association with Prof. Sajal Nag, Senior Fellow NMML, Prof. Gunnel Cederlof, Uppsala University, Sweden and Dr. Suryasikha Pathak, Assam University, Silchar, Assam.

Concept note:
Recent years have seen the emergence of new research on Northeast India. Compared to earlier landmark studies which have brought out the colonial and political history of the region and of sub-regions within the larger region, today, notions of different geographies have begun to organise academic debates. Northeast India is now more often seen from the perspective of landscapes, space, topography and scale. It is analysed in terms of boundaries and borders, and the constraints such colonial and modern political interventions have enforced onto peoples’ lives, livelihoods and psyche. It is also an old 18th century colonial frontier, seen from the perspective of a European trading corporation’s government at Calcutta, which has remained within the notion of a frontier even today. What can give better evidence to this than the politically defined geographical direction “The Northeast”? However, India has many “frontiers”. Phenomena which tend to distinguish the Northeast as a unique place, set apart from a general “mainland” Indian experience, may turn out to share historical experiences in common with the colonial Southwest frontier—Chhattisgarh and Chotanagpur or contemporary Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal, Nepal, NWFP, and even the Andaman Islands. Confronting the Northeast with such experiences may open up and even preclude axiomatic applications of space, as for example the nation state or “The Northeast”. Pointing to the limitations of earlier historiography, such discussions may help to better understand processes of making, claiming and writing history. The present engagement with political, ecological, and social geographies offers us an opportunity to rethink research frameworks, and to do this by focusing specifically on the new generation of researchers—PhD students and post doctoral researchers.

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