(SUB-) TERRITORIALITY AND THE MODERN STATE: THE CASE OF NORTH-EASTERN INDIA

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Miller Donald F. , The Reason of Metaphor: A Study of Politics (New York: Sage, 1992), p. 169. See, Chakrabarti Anindita , ‘Nation-State, Communities and Identity: A Case Study of Recent Sikh Militancy’, unpublished M. Phil. Dissertation, Dept, of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1996, p. 72.

For an exploration of this connection between territoriality and modernity, see, Weber Max , ‘Politics as a Vocation’ in Gerth H.H. Mills C.W. (eds.), From Max Weber (New York: OUP, 1972). Also, James Anderson , op. cit., Chap. 1. Also, Giddens Anthony , Social Theory and Modern Sociology (Stanford, Calif.: Standford University Press, 1987), Chap. 7. Also, Poggi Gianfranco , The State: Its Nature, Development and Prospects (Stanford, Calif.: Standford University Press, 1990), Chap. 1. Also, Pierson Christopher , The Modern State (London: Routledge, 1996), Chap. 2. For Walker R.B.J. , however, the connection is to say the least, tenuous. According to him, the scholars of international relations have found the thesis that ‘the well-established accounts of reason, progress and Enlightenment’ characteristic of modernity depend on ‘a prior claim that there is a political community in which reason, progress and Enlightenment’ might unfold’, ‘highly problematic’. There is no reason to think that modernity project necessarily confines itself to the territorial scope of a ‘modem’ state and does not move beyond it. See, Walker R.B.J. , Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: CUP, 1993), p. 61. But that at any given point of time, modernity and territoriality of the nation-state may coincide with each other is, as he admits, beyond any doubt.

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For an appreciation, see, Giddens Anthony , op. cit .

I have discussed the inherent limits of such subjectivity in Kumar Das Samir , ‘National Security and the New Rights Discourse in Northeastern India’ in Bhattacharya Sanjukta B. Das Rochana (eds.). Perspectives on India’s North-East (Calcutta: Bibhasa. 1998), pp. 59–62.

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There has developed a whole, new literature on this. I have discussed the problem in the context of north-eastern region in Kumar Das Samir Bhattacharya Sanjukta B. Das Rochana , op. cit .

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See, Bhaumik Subir Samaddar Ranabir (ed.), op. cit .

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