Discrimination, Challenge and Response People of North East India

This book explores discrimination against Northeast Indians, who have been frequently stereotyped as backwards, anti-national, anti-assimilationist, immoral, and relegated to low paying positions across retail, hospitality, telecommunications and wellness industries. 

The contributions draw on interviews with individuals who have migrated to other Indian cities and towns to find jobs and escape from native poverty, and provide a critical examination of the intersections between power, privilege and racial hierarchy in India today. The chapters cover a variety of perspectives including social movements and activism, history, policy, youth studies and gender studies. With a focus on marginalised communities, and the effects and persistence of racial inequality in a South Asian context, this collection will be an important contribution to critical race studies, public policy, human rights discourse, and social work.

1. Discrimination, Challenge and Response in India: It's Time for Truth Telling; Venkat Pulla, Sanjai Bhatt, Rituparna Bhattacharyya.- 2. At the Intersections of Discrimination of Caste and Beyond; Venkat Pulla, Elizabeth Carter, Sanjai Bhatt.- 3. Viewing Racism through Gendered Lenses; Rituparna Bhattacharyya, Venkat Pulla.- 4. Understanding Ethnic Violence in North East India; Venkat Pulla, Bhairabi Nandini Kaushik, Bharath Bhushan Mamidi, Sanjai Bhatt.- 5. Women's Collective Action for Peace in the North Eastern Region; Rubi Devi, Kanchana - Lanzet, Venkat Pulla.- 6. North East Indians an their Contribution to Indian Literature; Dhurjjatti Sarma, Venkat Pulla.- 7. Nagas - A Bitter Past: From the British Period to Nehru; Rituparna Bhattacharya, Venkat Pulla.- 8. The Nagas Saga and an Uncertain Future? Nagas after Nehru to Modi; Rituparna Bhattacharya, Venkat Pulla.- 9. Look/Act East Policy and North East India: Issues, Concerns and Opportunities; Venkat Pulla; Gunindra Nath Sarmah, Hiranya K. Nath.- 10. Recognising, Understanding and Responding to Racism in India; Venkat Pulla, Elizabeth Carter, Rittuparna Bhattacharya.

Venkat Pulla is Senior Research Fellow (Adjunct), Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, and Foundation Professor at the Brisbane Institute of Strengths-based Practice, Australia.

Rituparna Bhattacharyya is an independent research consultant, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Space and Culture, India.

Sanjai Bhatt is Professor of Social Work at the University of Delhi, and President of the National Association of Professional Social Workers in India.