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Northeast India's integration question

It is more of an administrative construct than a historical region with a shared past, given its mindboggling diversity in cultures, languages and ethnicities

Northeast India: A Political History
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Northeast India: A Political History

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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

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