Seminar Issue on Northeast India and the Look East Policy
The June 2005 issue of Seminar on the theme Gateway to the East: Northeast
India and the Look East Policy has just come out and is available at
bookstores. The contents of the issue are listed below.
The issue will be available on Seminars website
http://www.india-seminar.com after a few week.
Seminar 550 June 2005
Gateway to the East: A Symposium on Northeast India and the Look East
Policy.
1. The Problem
Posed by Sanjib Baruah, Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research,
New Delhi
2. Northeast India in a New Asia
Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
3. Economic Opportunities Or Continuing Stagnation
Sushil Khanna, Professor of Economics and Strategic Management, Indian
Institute of Management, Calcutta
4. Waters of despair, waters of hope
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, Centre for
Northeast Studies and Policy Research, New Delhi and Guwahati.
5. Prospects for tourism
M.P. Bezbaruah, Former Secretary Ministry of Tourism, Government of India
6. Operation Hornbill Festival 2004
Dolly Kikon, Member, Working Group, Northeast Peoples Initiative,
Guwahati.
7. Guns, drugs and rebels
Subir Bhaumik, East India Correspondent, BBC, Kolkata
8. A historical perspective
Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, USA
9. Territorialities yet unaccounted
Karin Dean, Asia Correspondent, Postimees, Bangkok
10. The Tai-Ahom connection
Yasmin Saikia, Assistant Professor History, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, USA
11. Community, Culture, Nation
Mrinal Miri, Vice Chancellor, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
12. The Ethnic Dimension
Samir Kumar Das, Reader, Department of Political Science, Calcutta
University
13. BOOKS
Reviewer: Nandana Datta
Durable Dusorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib
Baruah, Oxford University Press, 2005
Reviewer: Dulali Nag
Towards an Asian Economic Community: Vision of a New Asia, 2004, (Ed)
Nagesh Kumar. New Delhi: RIS for Developing Countries and Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and
India-ASEAN Partnership in an Era of Globalization: Reflections by Eminent
Persons. 2002. New Delhi: RIS for Developing Countries and Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Reviewer: Bodhisattva Kar
Assam and India: Fragmented Memories, Cultural Identity and the Tai-Ahom
Struggle by Yasmin Saikia, Permanent Black, 2005.
Reviewer: Nimmi Kurian
Making Sense of Chindia: Reflections on China and India by Jairam Ramesh,
India Research Press, 2005
Reviewer: M.S. Prabhakara
Wooing the Generals: Indias New Burma Policy by Renaud Egreteau;
Authorspress and Centre de Sciences Humaines; Delhi, 2003; pp. x + 224;
14. FURTHER READING
Compiled by Sukanya Sharma, Fellow, Centre for Northeast India, South and
Southeast Asia Studies, Guwahati
15. COMMUNICATION
16. BACKPAGE
Sanjib Baruah
Visiting Professor
Centre for Policy Research
Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri
New Delhi 110021, India
Telephone (91-11) 2611-5273, 2611-5274, 2611-5275, 2611-5276
Fax (91-11) 2687-2746, 2688-6902
http://www.cprindia.org
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