Northeast India: A Political History
Author: Samrat Choudhury
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 432
Price: Rs 699
On India’s map, its Northeast region may appear to be a protuberance that hangs on to the rest of the country and sends a mere 25 Members of Parliament to the 543-member Lok Sabha. Still, the events in the Northeast, particularly Manipur, were most recently the reason the Opposition brought a no-confidence motion against the Modi government. It was only the second no-confidence motion that the government faced in the past nine years. It was proof that the region, which for decades felt alienated, is more integrated with the