Understanding ethnicity, conflict, and the peace building process
A clear account of inter-ethnic tension in Northeast India, and of the identity, land, and political aspirations that shape both conflict and the work of living together.
Scholar • Conflict and Peace in Northeast India
Dr. Nityananda Kalita studies ethnic conflict, identity politics, and governance in Northeast India, with particular attention to Assam. His work stays with the places where belonging, land, and political aspiration shape everyday community life.
He studied at Savitribai Phule Pune University and earned his Ph.D. from Gauhati University. He has presented more than twenty papers at national and international conferences, and he has published several articles in the vernacular for readers who live these questions as well as those who research them.
He treats conflict as something that can be understood, not only recorded. By tracing how identity, migration, and governance meet on the ground, he looks for a clearer path toward peace building and coexistence in one of India's most plural regions.
Ethnic Conflict in Northeast India explores the roots and realities of inter-ethnic tension in one of the country's most diverse regions, with a special focus on Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao. It examines how identity, migration, land, and political aspiration have shaped both conflict and the relations between communities over time.
The study holds local experience and the wider region in the same frame. A dispute over land or recognition in these districts is also a question of governance, belonging, and the limits of the state across Northeast India.
The book follows how communities name themselves, how movement and settlement rearrange those names, and how political claims can harden into confrontation. It stays attentive to the cost of division without reducing the region to a single story of violence.
Written for academic and general readers alike, it contributes to the understanding of conflict in plural societies. Its further hope is practical: clearer insight into peace building, and into the slower work of coexistence.
Identity is a home until it is drawn as a border.
Land keeps the memory of every migration.
Peace is the long practice of learning to remain.
Write to Dr. Nityananda Kalita about ethnic conflict, governance, and the work of peace building in Northeast India.
