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Land is the centre of most conflicts in Northeast India because of its importance in the life of the people of the region, particularly its tribal communities. It is also the resource most under attack, in the tribal areas in particular.
This book contains studies papers conducted by a group of researchers on land alienation in different states of the Northeast in 2005-2006.
The book attempt to understand the processes that result in tribal land alienation and the consequent conflicts in the region.
The eight papers of this book attempt to disaggregate the received knowledge on land use systems in Northeast India, by using a mixture of ethnography and archival data.
It tried to highlights the customary land tenure systems in the context of different tribal communities of north-eastern states, aspects of conflicts and trends of land alienation, impact on land ownerships and land use change with the changing situations, problems of refugees rehabilitation, impact of privatization on communal land tenure, land acquisition, etc in the collected papers.
