Foreword by D.P. Barooah ; List of Tables ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction by Sandhya Goswami ; I. Historical Legacies ; 1. Constructing and Performing Diversity: Colonial and Contemporary Processes ; Nandana Dutta ; 2. Post-Colonial Indian State and Tribes: Nationalist Discursive Structures and a New Hegemonic Consensus ; Amit Prakash ; 3. Nation-State and Ethnicity: The Critical Discourse in Northeast India ; Asok Kumar Ray ; 4. Adivasi Identity Question in Assam: A Historical Perspective ; Meeta Deka ; II. Diversity, Development, Confl ict, and Management ; 5. The Nexus between Development and Diversity: A Case Study of the Pagladia Dam Project ; Barnalee Choudhury ; 6. Demand of 'Tea Tribes' for Scheduled Tribe Status in Assam: A Review ; Dhruba Pratim Sharma ; 7. Autonomy Question and Local Governance Paradox: Alternative Intra-federal De-territorialized Model ; Jayanta Krishna Sarmah ; 8. Managing Diversity: The Case of the Karbi-Dimasa Autonomy Movement ; Uttam Bathari ; III. Comparative Perspective ; 9. Northeast and Kashmir: Problems in a Comparative Perspective ; Noor Ahmad Baba ; 10. Diversity and Conflict: Lessons Drawn from Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India ; Rekha Chowdhary and Sandhya Goswami ; 11. Beyond the Politics of Control ; Bhagat Oinam ; Index ; Notes on the Editor and Contributors

'Troubled Diversity' provides a comprehensive analysis of the conflict situation in the northeastern region of India by addressing questions such as: why identity politics centering around ethnicity is more intense in this region? For creating and consolidating its respective identities, why does every ethnic group make and effort to construct its other? How does the ideology of the other motivate and guide identity politics?