Army Rule in North East India

In 1947 Indian independence and partition resulted in the North East becoming a landlocked region. This exacerbated the isolation that has been recognized, but not studied. East Pakistan controlled access to the Indian Ocean. The mountainous terrain has hampered the construction of road and railways connections in the region. Several militant groups have formed an alliance to fight against the governments of India, Bhutan, and Myanmar, and now use the term “Western Southeast Asia” (WESEA) to refer to the region. It’s not just another book on human rights violation. It raises questions on the role of the pillars of Indian democracy. “The question is not whether armed resistance is right or wrong, but what is the democratic space left for the people of the Northeast when the courts refuse to give judgements for decades, when they have almost no representation in Parliament, the media never gives space to report their grievances and the agenda of the NGOs is set by foreign corporations or Western states