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"The East India Company rarely started a direct military conflict with an Indian state". What was the reason and benefit 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

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