Human Rights and Insurgency : The North East India

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Conceptualising human rights. 1. Human rights and low intensity: conflicts in India/S.N. Bhargava. 2. Human Rights: safeguard and violations/Ranju R. Dhamala. 3. Human rights education: an integrated approach/N.B. Biswas. II. Insurgency and polity. 4. Insurgency in the North East: improving awareness/Trigunesh Mukherjee. 5.State atrocities as history: counter insurgency operations and human rights violations in North East India/Sajal Nag. 6. Social tension in North-East India: an ecological perspective/Abhik Gupta. 7. Insurgency and the hill tribes of North East India/Chinmoy Kanti Biswas. 8. Insurgency in North Cachar hills/ Tanmay Bhattacharjee. 9. Universalism and relativism in human rights: problematique of minority rights in North East India/ Rajesh Dev. 10. State, insurgency and (wo)man's human rights: two cases from the North East India/Sukalpa Bhattacharjee. 11. "Nations from Below" and "Rebel Consciousness": the "New Subaltern" emergence of North East India/Prasenjit Biswas. 12. Human rights and nationalised civilisations/B. S. Butola. 13. Rights consciousness and the other: a 'Parapolitical' approach to human rights/Goutam Biswas. "The book makes a critical intervention in contemporary discourses on Human Rights and examines them in the context of insurgency, particularly in North-East India. The institutionalization of human rights has made the modern nation-states and international bodies like the United Nations, the custodian of individual and collective rights. The violation of human rights takes place when such 196 pp.…