The Look East Policy and Northeast India

Dr. Asok Kumar Ray. 1951. Served as a teacher of Political Science in undergraduate classes under Manipur University for 18 years. Awarded Ph.D. Degree for working on tribal political system. Published the first book 'Authority and Legitimacy -A Study of the Thandou Kukis of Manipur. Published and presented as many as fifty five research papers on inter-disciplinary areas of social science. Worked in close association with Education Department and Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Manipur, and produced archival materials on Kuki Rebellion (from Calcutta & Dishpur Achieves) and a Bibliography on the Tribes of Manipur respectively. Prepared Bibliography on Structural Adjustment and New Economic Policy. (Mimeographed). The author is a Life Member of -NEICSSR, Shillong & Indian Sociological Society.

Dr. Gorky Chakraborty (1970) did his post-graduation in Economics (1994) from Dibrugarh University and joined the Land Reforms Unit, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, as a Faculty Member. He has been a Rajiv Gandhi Short Term Research Fellow (1997-98) at O.K.D/ Institute of Social Change & Development, Guwahati, completing a project on "Floriculture in Assam". He worked as a UGC Teacher Fellow (2004-060 at Department of Economics, Dibrugarh University. He has completed his Ph.D from Dibrugarh University (2008). He has taught at several institutions and is presently working as a Lecturer in Economics at DoomDooma College, Assam. Dr Chakraborty has written extensively on various issues concerning northeast India in various journals and edited volumes.