Table of Contents
Section I: Understanding Autonomy
1. The Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India: Emergence and Development
Jangkhongam Doungel
2. Revisiting Sixth Schedule and Demand for Separate States in Northeast India: A Paradox of Political Autonomy
Mayengbam Nandakishwor Singh
3. State within a State: Analysing the Issues and Challenges of Autonomous Councils
Ashutosh Tripathi and Gautam Kumar
Section II: Autonomy and Electoral Politics
4. Contextualising Democratic Governance in Bodoland: Changes and Challenges
Ankur Jyoti Bhuyan, Tarun Gogoi and Partha Pratim Borah
5. Challenging Predicaments of Electoral Politics of an Autonomous District Council:
The case of Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD), Assam
Nironjoy Islary
6. The Working of the Autonomous District Councils in Manipur in Theory and Practice
Thangkhanlal Ngaihte
Section III: Traditional Institutions, Autonomy Movement and Cooperatives
7. Traditional Institutions, State Recognition and Democracy in Sikkim: Reconciling Tradition with Modernity
Durga Prasad Chhetri
8. Subject and Citizen: The Autonomy Question and Dzumsa in Sikkim
Sunil Pradhan
9. The Crisis within: Can the Autonomous District Councils survive in Meghalaya?
Dhiraj Kumar Borkotoky
10. Autonomy Movements of Bodos and Chutias of Assam: A Comparative Study
Pallabi Deka and Tribedi Chutia
11. The Trajectory from Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration: A Fragile Administrative Autonomy in Darjeeling
Kabindra Sharma, Sanghamitra Choudhury and Debojyoti Das
12. Understanding Autonomy Movement of the Misings in Assam
Bhaskar Pegu
13. Autonomy and Democratisation through Cooperatives: Change from Within
Aloke N. Prabhu