The dynamics of the politics of identity, ethnicity and self-determination seems to be at climax today be lying many ideologies who once thought that ethnic dynamism was a non-issue for the 20th and 21st centuries. This is fore the fact that many peoples and/or nations are world -the United nations Organisation (UNO) -as equal partners. There is an ugly face of the emergence of several independent states (viz., in multi-national states) that is the case of the "unrepresented nations/peoples" that have been arbitrarily annexed into the stronger and bigger newly formed independent states so that they remain as "marginalized" nations as in the then existing state systems. Nagas are said to be one of the peoples and/or nations who were annexed by India and Myanmar (erstwhile Burma). Today, the Nagas are living in two sovereign states as unhappy people. This book, The Nagas’ Right to Self-determination, is a historical and holistic account of the Nagas’ struggle for their right to self-determination, to be independent from India and Myanmar with special references of the Nagas’ old way of life, the emergence of the Naga movement and the later developments and the perceptions of the Nagas on self-determination. The author goes back into the remote Naga past traditions and articulates them to the development of the modern Naga national movement. The second edition of the book has enabled the author to update the material in the book discussing the recent developments of the Naga peace talks with the Indian Central Government, adding value to it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Vashum
R. Vashum is from Marem village, Ukhrul District (Manipur). He did his schooling in a few schools in Ukhrul district ad Imphal (in Manipur). His Pre-University and University (B.Sc.) were done in D.M. College of Science, Imphal. He obtained postgraduate degree in Anthropology (Social) from the university of Delhi. He was awarded Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Delhi (Department of Anthropology) for the research work, ‘Nagas and the Question of Self-Many academic seminars and conferences even as he had coordinated them. He has to his credit several books published and a couple of dozen articles and book reviews in leading journals. Some of his published works include, “Indo-Naga Conflict: Problem and Resolution†(2001), “Extraordinary Laws in India …†(co-edited, 2002) and “State, Development and Identity in South Asia†(co-edited, 2002). Right from his school days, he has been a very active social worker at the regional and national levels holding key executive positions. He is currently in the Faculty of Sociology, SOSS, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He has a wide range of academic interests some of which include areas related to social change, tribal transformation, ethnicity and identification, social movements, ethnicity and identity, nationalism, self-determination, self-identification, human rights, collective rights, social democracy, social justice, social/cultural ecology, marginalized society, methodology, philosophy of social science, and synthesis of interdisciplinary ideas and approaches.
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