Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India

by Dolly Kikon

Book Overview

The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295743956
• ISBN13: 9780295743950
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher