Nagas\' Right to Self-Determination : An Anthropological-Historical Perspective
Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgement. Preface. Preface to the second edition. Glossary. 1. Introduction. 2. The Nagas - a general view. 3. Methodology and field experience. 4. Self-determination - conceptual framework. 5. Naga National Movement -- A historical account (to 1947). 6. Naga National Movement - A Historical account (Since 1948). 7. Self-determination - perception of the Nagas. 8. Conclusion. Appendices: 1. The Yehzabo of Nagaland. 2. Naga Memorandum to Simon Commission. 3. The Nine Point Agreement. 4. A letter from Jail. 5. A letter to the President of India. 6. The Sixteen Point Agreement. 7. The question of Nagaland State. 8. Nagaland Peace Mission\'s proposals. 9. Shillong Accord. 10. Desai-Phizo talk. 11. Declaration by the Government of India. 12. Punjab Security of State Act, 1953. 13. The Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Autonomous Districts) Act, 1953.14. The Armed Forces (special powers) Regulation, 1958. 15. The Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Act, 1958. 16. The Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers (Amendment) Act, 1972. 17. Regulation 5 of 1962 (The Nagaland Security Regulation, 1962). 18. Statement of the United Nations on Naga Affairs 1995. 19. Agreed Ground rules the Indo-Naga Cease-Fire 1997. 20. 4 Naga Consultation on Indo-Naga talks. Bibliography. Index.
"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 20 and 21 centuries. This is for the fact that many peoples and/or nations are still "unrepresented" in the comity of the 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 has not been well addressed. This is the case of the "unpresented nations/peoples" that have been arbitrarily annexed into the stronger and bigger newly formed independent states so that they remain as "marginalised" 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 reference to India. This work thus mainly covers 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 Modem 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.\' (jacket)
