Government of Peace: Social Governance, Security and the Problematic of Peace

253 Pages·2015·2.225 MB·English

by  Ranabir Samaddar

GOVERNMENT OF PEACE
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Government of Peace
Social Governance, Security and the
Problematic of Peace
Edited by
RANABIR SAMADDAR
Calcutta Research Group, India
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Government of peace : social governance, security and the problematic of peace / edited
by Ranabir Samaddar.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-3491-3 (hardback)
1. Peace-building--India. 2. Conflict management-
-India. 3. Social justice--India. 4. Internal security--India. 5. India--Politics and
government. I. Samaddar, Ranabir, editor of compilation.
JZ5584.I4G68 2015
303.6’60954--dc23
2014030869
ISBN 9781472434913 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315585659 (ebk)
Contents
List of Tables, Maps and Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Part I the ProblematIc of SecurIty
1 Government of Peace 19
Ranabir Samaddar
2 Disciplining Villages and Restoring Peace in the Countryside 57
Sajal Nag
3 Tripura: Counter-insurgency and Governance 79
Subir Bhaumik
4 Ethnic Subject or the Subject of Security? 107
Samir Kumar Das
Part II the ProblematIc of SocIety
5 Women, Conflict, and Governance in Nagaland 133
Paula Banerjee
6 Governing Caste and Managing Conflicts: Bihar, 1990–2011 167
Manish K. Jha and Pushpendra
7 Governing Flood, Migration, and Conflict in North Bihar 203
Mithilesh Kumar
Index 227
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List of Tables, Maps and Figures
Tables
3.1 Decadal variation of population and percentage of tribal population
(1871–1981) 81
3.2 Year-wise influx of displaced persons into Tripura 82
3.3 Fatalities in terrorist-related violence in Tripura 1992–2003 91
3.4 Militancy-related fatalities in Tripura: 2001–08 97
6.1 Caste and community of the MLAs in Bihar (in percentage) 201
7.1 Work demanded in the four districts of North Bihar 220
7.2 Employment provided to households in the four districts in
North Bihar 221
Maps
7.1 Districts of Bihar 223
7.2 District Darbhanga 223
7.3 District Saharsa 224
7.4 District Supaul 224
7.5 District Madhepura 225
Figure
3.1 Genealogy of Insurgent Organisations in Tripura 90
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List of Contributors
About the Editor
Ranabir Samaddar, Director of the Calcutta Research Group, belongs to the school
of critical thinking. He has worked extensively on forced migration, the theory and
practices of dialogue, nationalism and post-colonial statehood in South Asia, and
new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control.
List of Contributors
Paula Banerjee is an associate professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies
at the University of Calcutta, and is the President of the IASFM (International
Association for the Study of Forced Migration (2012–2014). She won the Fulbright
Visiting Scholar Programme for the academic year of 2013–2014.
Subir Bhaumik is a former BBC correspondent and now senior editor with
bdnews24.com. He was a Queen Elizabeth House fellow at Oxford University and
Eurasian-Net Fellow at Frankfurt University.
Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science and currently the Dean,
Faculty of Arts at the University of Calcutta, India. Formerly Vice-Chancellor of
the University of North Bengal and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
(2014), he was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research
Council (South Asia Program).
Manish K. Jha is Professor at the Centre for Community Organization and
Development Practice, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
(TISS). His areas of interest include human rights, human development and human
security, governance, peace and conflict resolution, social movements, disaster
and development.
Mithilesh Kumar is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society,
University of Western Sydney. His areas of interest include political economy,
urban studies, urban politics, city politics, airport studies, and Marxist theory.