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- Title: Politics of Region: The Making of Nagas Identity During the Colonial and Post-Colonial Era (Report)
- Author : Borderlands
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 387 KB
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This paper is an attempt to problematize the concept of 'region' so as to analyze the politics of the Nagas (inhabiting the border or frontier of India and Myanmar/Burma nation-states) in the first half of the twentieth century. The ideas of 'region' and 'margin' are used as conceptual tools in this paper to analyze the complex nature of the politics of identity. The paper argues in particular that the 'production' of region--in this case that of the modern state--involves space and power, but that the margins of constructed regions have powers to resist and defy the hegemonic powers of the state, both ideological and institutional. The making of identity, this paper contends, is thus the making of place and the politics of identity is also the politics of space. The first section of the paper deals with the problemalization of the concept of 'region' and 'margin'. 'Region' is defined there as a particular way of partitioning space and the control and exercise of power over it, while 'margin' is conceptualized as a space of contradiction and contestation. The second section illustrates how colonial rulers constructed frontiers (or, for this paper, 'margins') from the blank-spaces in Imperial maps in the nineteenth century as part of the development of the modern politico-spatial arrangement. The last section explores how the Nagas, located in the 'margin' of constructed 'regions', contested and resisted this identity in the first half of the twentieth century. There is a politics of space because space is political.
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