"The East India Company rarely started a direct military conflict with an Indian state". What was the benefit and reason of doing so?
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Chapter 1
Integration of the North East: the State Formation Process
Kyoko Inoue
North East India in this study consists of eight states (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim), and is enclosed
by Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Tibet), and Myanmar1
. A narrow corridor between
Bhutan and Bangladesh provides the only overland connection between the North
East Region and mainland India. The population of the North East consists of the
original, indigenous inhabitants together with various ethnic groups, including
people from Tibet, Burma, Thailand and Bengal2
, who migrated into the region at
various periods of history. Although there are migrants of long standing, who
have become integrated into the local population over very many years, an
increasingly large inflow of recent migrants over a short period has caused
friction with the local population. During the British colonial period and even
after independence, the North East, adjoining China, has been a difficult frontier
region.
Throughout the British colonial period, the North East was treated separately and
differently from other regions of British India. In the early colonial period, the
region formed part of Bengal Province and it was governed as though it were an
adjacent subordinate area of Bengal Province even after it became the separate
province of Assam in 1874. Moreover, with the Bengal Eastern Frontier
Regulation of 1873, a Line System was introduced on the pretext of protecting the
minority indigenous ethnic groups in the hill areas of Assam by restricting
outsiders’ entry, business activities, land transactions and settlement. For the same
purpose, in 1935 the hill areas were demarcated and divided into “excluded areas”
and “partially excluded Areas”3
. The former fell under direct British jurisdiction
and the latter were given a limited representative system under British
administrative control. In short, separation and isolation formed the core of
British policy towards the North East.
The history of separation and isolation from the rest of India in the colonial period
created a problem for the national formation and integration of independent India.
In the North East, a sense of incompatibility grew into one of resentment against
Answer:
Explanation:
Chapter 1
Integration of the North East: the State Formation Process
Kyoko Inoue
North East India in this study consists of eight states (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim), and is enclosed
by Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Tibet), and Myanmar1
. A narrow corridor between
Bhutan and Bangladesh provides the only overland connection between the North
East Region and mainland India. The population of the North East consists of the
original, indigenous inhabitants together with various ethnic groups, including
people from Tibet, Burma, Thailand and Bengal2
, who migrated into the region at
various periods of history. Although there are migrants of long standing, who
have become integrated into the local population over very many years, an
increasingly large inflow of recent migrants over a short period has caused
friction with the local population. During the British colonial period and even
after independence, the North East, adjoining China, has been a difficult frontier
region.
Throughout the British colonial period, the North East was treated separately and
differently from other regions of British India. In the early colonial period, the
region formed part of Bengal Province and it was governed as though it were an
adjacent subordinate area of Bengal Province even after it became the separate
province of Assam in 1874. Moreover, with the Bengal Eastern Frontier
Regulation of 1873, a Line System was introduced on the pretext of protecting the
minority indigenous ethnic groups in the hill areas of Assam by restricting
outsiders’ entry, business activities, land transactions and settlement. For the same
purpose, in 1935 the hill areas were demarcated and divided into “excluded areas”
and “partially excluded Areas”3
. The former fell under direct British jurisdiction
and the latter were given a limited representative system under British
administrative control. In short, separation and isolation formed the core of
British policy towards the North East.
The history of separation and isolation from the rest of India in the colonial period
created a problem for the national formation and integration of independent India.
In the North East, a sense of incompatibility grew into one of resentment against