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Discuss the implications of the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime with Myanmar by the Indian Government on the complex ethno-political dynamics of the north-eastern region.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The 1,643 km India–Myanmar boundary, settled by the agreement of 10 March 1967, cuts through Naga and Kuki-Chin-Mizo (Zo) homelands. These are the upland peoples James C. Scott (The Art of Not Being Governed, 2009) placed in "Zomia", whose lives were organised across, not within, state lines. The Free Movement Regime (FMR), descended from a…

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  • What has changed
  • Implications for ethno-political dynamics
  • The security case
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  • Conclusion
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