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Critically examine the ethnic conflicts in North-East India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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The North-East holds about 4.58 crore people in more than two hundred ethnic groups, joined to the rest of India by the narrow Siliguri corridor. Its conflicts are often read as one problem; they are really three, and the state's response has been uneven across them.

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  • Three families of conflict
  • How the state has responded
  • Critical examination
  • The balance sheet
  • Conclusion
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