The Routledge Companion to Northeast India

The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms - human and not - languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas.

A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general.

Jelle J.P. Wouters is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. He holds an MPhil (with distinction) in social anthropology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in anthropology from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Prior to joining Royal Thimphu College, he taught at Sikkim University, India, and was a visiting faculty at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, under the ’Excellence Initiative’ of the German Research Foundation. He has published about political lifeworlds, democracy and elections, insurgency and violence, kinship and identity, capitalism and resource-extraction, and social history of Northeast India.

Tanka B. Subba is a retired Professor from the Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Sikkim University from 2012 to 2017. He has received awards like the Homi Bhabha Fellowship (Mumbai), Dr Panchanan Mitra Lectureship and R.P. Chanda Centenary Medal for 2015 (Asiatic Society, Kolkata), DAAD Guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, and Baden-Wuerttemberg Fellowship at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg. He was a member of the Academic Councils of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, and Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, and served as a member of the Advisory Boards of the National Museum of Mankind, Bhopal, Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, and the INTACH, New Delhi.