Documents on North East India

About the book

The Volume provides an insight into certain select documents that have shaped North East India in a variety of ways, the perusal of which would aid scholarship that is appropriately beginning to study the enchanted frontiers. Beginning with the Treaty of Yandaboo signed between the British and the king of present-day Myanmar on 24 February 1826, the compilation showcases various accords, reports and agreements that have been scripted for the region, an expanse that is crucial not only for India’s national security, but also to the spirit of unity in diversity that characterises its prowess. The book would be useful to research scholars, policy makers and readers having an interest in the region.

About the Compiler

Jaideep Saikia is a terrorism and security analyst and an expert on North East India. Saikia has published over two dozen academic papers in various national and international security journals and has written or edited eight book on security, counter-terrorism and strategy, including Terror Sans Frontiers: Islamist Militancy in North East India and Terrorism: Pattern of Internationalization. An alumni of the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, the last of which was an Ford Fellow. Saikia has also served the Government of India and Assam in security advisorial capacities and also a member of the Indian delegation for Track II Dialogue with Bangladesh in 2007.

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