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List of figures. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Frames of region and people: practices of knowledge and representation Lipokmar Dzüvichü and Manjeet Baruah I: Region, Frontier and State 1. Region Formed and Imagined: Reconsidering Temporal, Spatial and Social Context of Kāmarūpa Jae-Eun Shin 2. Conquest and the Quotidian: Forms of Violence and the Making of Tripura (1760–1793) Anandaroop Sen 3. The Arteries of Empire: Routes, People and Mobility in Colonial Naga Hills, 1850s – 1920s Lipokmar Dzüvichü II: Knowledge, People and Representation 4: Vai phobia to Raj nostalgia: Sahibs, chiefs and commoners in colonial Lushai hills David Vumlallian Zou 5. Text, Knowledge and Representation: Reading Gender in Sumi Marriage Practices Lovitoli Jimo 6. Orality: Analysing Its Politics Within the Domains of the Mizo Narrative Margaret L. Pachuau 7. Empire and the Making of a Narrative: The Ballad of the General and its History as a Historical Source in Colonial Assam Manjeet Baruah III: Writing Culture, Writing Politics 8. Of People and their Stories: Writings in English from India’s Northeast K. B. Veio Pou 9. Close Encounters of the Real Kind: The Avatars of Terror in Two Assamese Short Stories Amit R. Baishya 10: Subdued Eloquence: Poetics of Body Movement, Time and Space Usham Rojio. Bibliography. Index