The present title has been the result of three years’ of hard toil through the insurgent-torn Tripura and six other relatively calm and peaceful states of the North-East. It seeks to resolve a few paradoxes from the perspective of policy science exploiting the economic deprivation and social-cum ethno-cultural identities of the people of this region. The North-East has been in flames almost since Indian independence but is it due to ethnic factors alone or ...
