What is it about?
The Inner Line system was a colonial construct. Yet, social movements spread across three states in Northeast India have been demanding the application of an Inner Line System in their states. The paper demystifies the demands for an Inner Line.
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Why is it important?
With a dismantling of physical characteristics of the frontier, the idea of Northeast India as a frontier territory has given way to the making of a post-frontier. However, social demands belie this development and want areas inhabited by indigenous people to be recognized as frontier-like areas.
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The Inner Line system is only one among many colonial instruments that have been left behind as legacies and which continue to work in Northeast India. Writing this paper helped me to expand my understanding of the vast impacts that colonialism has made on this region.
Taz Barua
Indian Council of Historical Research
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This page is a summary of: Return of the Frontier, Alternatives Global Local Political, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0304375417753185.
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