Democratisation Process in North-East India Some Issues and Challenges

S Thianlalmuan Ngaihte primarily works and writes on issues related to North East India. He cleared UGC-NET in Political Science. He has worked on the role of ethnic elite in the construction and (trans)formation of community identity through a case study of Paite community of Manipur, for his doctoral thesis. He has authored Elite, Identity and Politics in Manipur (2013), and wrote articles which are published in Economic and Political Weekly, International Journal of South Asian Studies, Journal of North-East India Studies and Man and Society. His areas of interests are ethnicity and identity politics, North-East India studies, conflict and peace studies, globalisation, human rights, and government and politics. L T S as an g Guite is presently pursuing PhD in the Department of Geography, Northeastern Hill University, Shillong. The focus of his research work is on ethnic conflict over space and its geographical implications with reference to the Hill areas of Assam. He passed UGC-NET in 2006. He worked as Lecturer in St. Peter's College, Shillong. To his credit, he has published one article in national and two in international journals. 23