Contesting resources, contesting the nation?

ABSTRACT

This article is part of a Book Forum review of Sanjib Baruah’s book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (2020). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by five interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book.

KEYWORDS:

• Sovereignty
• kinship
• resource frontier
• indigeneity and hybrid regimes

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen is a professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on the political economy of democracy and development in India and the global South. He is the author, most recently, of Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland (2018).