Autonomy and Democratic Governance in Northeast India

Section I: Understanding Autonomy

1. The Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India: Emergence and Development

Jangkhongam Doungel

2. Revisiting Sixth Schedule and Demand for Separate States in Northeast India: A Paradox of Political Autonomy

Mayengbam Nandakishwor Singh

3. State within a State: Analysing the Issues and Challenges of Autonomous Councils

Ashutosh Tripathi and Gautam Kumar

Section II: Autonomy and Electoral Politics

4. Contextualising Democratic Governance in Bodoland: Changes and Challenges

Ankur Jyoti Bhuyan, Tarun Gogoi and Partha Pratim Borah

5. Challenging Predicaments of Electoral Politics of an Autonomous District Council:

The case of Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD), Assam

Nironjoy Islary

6. The Working of the Autonomous District Councils in Manipur in Theory and Practice

Thangkhanlal Ngaihte

Section III: Traditional Institutions, Autonomy Movement and Cooperatives

7. Traditional Institutions, State Recognition and Democracy in Sikkim: Reconciling Tradition with Modernity

Durga Prasad Chhetri

8. Subject and Citizen: The Autonomy Question and Dzumsa in Sikkim

Sunil Pradhan

9. The Crisis within: Can the Autonomous District Councils survive in Meghalaya?

Dhiraj Kumar Borkotoky

10. Autonomy Movements of Bodos and Chutias of Assam: A Comparative Study

Pallabi Deka and Tribedi Chutia

11. The Trajectory from Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration: A Fragile Administrative Autonomy in Darjeeling

Kabindra Sharma, Sanghamitra Choudhury and Debojyoti Das

12. Understanding Autonomy Movement of the Misings in Assam

Bhaskar Pegu

13. Autonomy and Democratisation through Cooperatives: Change from Within

Aloke N. Prabhu