Politics and Militancy in Nagaland

Most of the problems in politics are essentially dynamic in nature because they deal with ongoing progress of social and political development. A current problem which is still producing its impact on society like politics and militancy in Nagaland demands concentrated attention and careful analysis of data and objectivity in arriving at an intellectual conclusion. The author traces the genesis of insurgency with its theoretical basis, internal challenges leading from conflict to conferences. Efforts at peace missions and ceasefire to solve the vexed Naga problem and the emerging political trends form the core of the study. This book highlights the complexity and seriousness of a political phenomenon like the conflict and interaction among contrary forces operating in Nagaland. Politics and militancy in the state continues to be active. Such a problem which is still in active process cannot be summed up very briefly, nor can dogmatic conclusion be reached. Therefore the author avoids ending his study with dogmatic conclusions which could be proved irrelevant and out of focus by the very fact of change and development, responding to changing condition and factors. The book presents a clear picture of the origin, the growth and the varying responses with the passage of time of the problem. Consequently, no one-sided or partial dogmatic conclusions are given at the end. The author’s intellectual task is to analyse the problem and bring it into close relationship to the facts of current history of the Nagas. The book will be very useful for the politicians, public leaders, teachers, students and the academicians. It gives an insight into the growth and traces the trend of politics and militancy in the history of Naga freedom movement.