Politics of Autonomy and Ethnic Cocooning in Mizoram

This book concentrates on highlighting several issues that form the complex matrix of identity within the terrain of the socio-political-cultural landscape of Mizoram. It highlights the braided nature of the relations between the Centre and the State and also looks at the process of party formation and attitudes towards the southerners vis-a-vis the northerners in the process of identity formation. This study also bring out the complex within tribe relations which are moulded by strictures of patriarchal control and are exerted very intensely over issues of identity formation, centre-state relations and governance; and such relations continue to be moulded in the strict notions of Zo/Mizo understanding of identity and development.