CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN SECURITY: THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, GENDER, AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GLOSSARY OF NON-ENGLISH TERMS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: BOUNDED SPHERES, BOUNDED IDENTITIES -- CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATISATION AND HUMAN SECURITY -- THE ASCENDANCY OF THE THIRD SPHERE MODEL -- WHY CIVIL SOCIETY? -- EURO-CENTRISM AND CRITICAL CIVIL SOCIETY -- CIVIL SOCIETY IN INDIA -- HUMAN SECURITY -- APPLYING HUMAN SECURITY -- A CRITICAL STARTING POINT -- COLONIALISM, STATE FORMATION, AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA -- DRIVE-IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- CREATING TRIBES AND HILL TRIBES IN COLONIAL ASSAM -- THE PERSISTENCE OF COLONIAL CATEGORIES: STATE FORMATION AND THE FURTHER POLITICISATION OF IDENTITY -- THE 'OUTSIDERS' DISCOURSE: POLITICAL POWER AND ETHNICITY IN MEGHALAYA -- THE HEGEMONY OF IDENTITY IN MEGHALAYA -- IDENTITY, POWER AND INEQUALITY -- INSECURE IDENTITY -- PART II - MARGINALITY AND VOICE: THE INSECURITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- CONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY: THE POLITICS OF DEGRADATION AND IDENTITY -- APPROACHING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY -- ENVIRONMENTALISM IN NATIONAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS -- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN MEGHALAYA -- URANIUM MINING, COAL MINING, AND 'OUTSIDERS' -- COAL MINING -- ETHNICISING THE ENVIRONMENT -- THE MYTH OF EMPOWERMENT: GENDER, INSECURITY, AND IDENTITY -- APPROACHING GENDER AND INSECURITY -- GENDER-BASED INSECURITY IN THE KHASI HILLS -- GENDER POLITICS IN THE KHASI HILLS -- CONTESTING POWER: RECOVERING AGENCY -- TOWARDS TRANSCENDENCE? -- PART III - TRANSCENDENCE: BRINGING BACK THE POLITICAL -- TRANSCENDENCE: RE-THINKING CIVIL SOCIETY, RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY, AND RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA -- RE-IMAGINING CIVIL SOCIETY -- RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY -- RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA.

TRANSCENDENCE -- RE-POLITICISATION -- CONCLUSION: UNCOVERING NEGLECTED NARRATIVES OF INSECURITY -- APPENDIX 1: LIST OF ORGANISATIONS CONSULTED -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.