DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i01.007

Pages: 30-33

The politics of northeast India has been marked by ethnicity and extremism in the periods after independence. Emergence and growth of ethnic consciousness based on ethnic identity has manifested through ethnic political mobilization and ethnic movements. The assertion of various ethnic identities and the policies of the Indian state in containing ethnic extremism make the region distinct from the rest of the country. The root cause of ethnic assertion in northeast India can be found in the identity crisis of various tribal communities. This paper is an attempt to understand the ethnic issues which have decisively influenced the politics of all the states of northeast India.