North East India: The Ethnic Explosion by Nirmal Nibedon (1981) is a seminal work analysing the rising tide of ethnic identity politics and communal tensions in India’s northeastern states. Nibedon warns of an “ethnic explosion,” noting that various tribal, linguistic, and racial minorities (especially those of Mongoloid stock) are increasingly mobilizing to assert their distinct identity…
This is the explosive story of the underground movement in Nagaland never written before. It is an investigative report of the secret trails where the dew never dries, a trail which ended far beyond the Indian borders, snaking into the monsoon-soaked jungles of Kachin, where men like Zewtu fought and died unsung. These were the forests of no return where men like Kaito, Zhukiye. Mowu, Zuheto a…