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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- The book structure -- Chapter 1 . A gender analysis of development-induced displacement -- Chapter 2 . Reinventing narratives of displacement: Methodological considerations -- Chapter 3 . The context of Meghalaya -- Chapter 4 . Gender, mining, and matriliny in the Jaintia Hills -- Chapter 5 . "Growing up in a mining area": Gendering labour, leisure, and mobility -- Chapter 6 . Intimacies and violence in the mines -- Chapter 7 . Gendering love, marriage, and reproductive health: The question of continuity and change -- Chapter 1: A gender analysis of development-induced displacement -- Mining-induced displacement: The magnitude -- Gender and mining -- Impacts of mining on women -- Impact of mining on gender relationship -- Gender- and development-induced displacement -- Resettlement literature in DID -- Displacement as a development crisis -- Gender critique of the DID literature -- Modernisation, eurocentrism, and the weakness of the DID literature -- Indigenous people as the subjects of analysis -- A framework for investigating the changing gender relations in DID -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Reinventing narratives of displacement: Methodological considerations -- Selection of case study -- Why life narratives -- Memory -- Data collection -- Selection of interviewees -- Fieldwork -- Ethical issues -- Limitations of the research -- Language -- Accounts of daily-ness -- Volatile situation in Meghalaya -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The context of Meghalaya -- The history of state formation in Meghalaya -- The Khasi, Garo, and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya -- Migration, ethnicity, and conflict in Meghalaya -- Migration from Nepal to Meghalaya -- Migration from Bangladesh to Meghalaya.

Introduction / Melvil Pereira, Bitopi Dutta and Binita Kakati -- PART I. CONFLICT RESOLUTION SYSTEMS: THEORIES, THOUGHTS AND CONCEPTS: Conflict resolution systems in the tribal societies of Northeast India : legal pluralism and Indian democracy / Nandita Haksar -- Diverse personal laws, gender justice and controversy over the uniform civil code / Flavia Agnes -- Customary law, state law and non-state organisation : the predicaments of legal pluralism and growing conflict in Nagaland / N.K. Das -- Customary law and the politics of peace and conflict resolution in post-colonial states : threats posed by modernisation and development / Bitopi Dutta -- Legal pluralism and alternative dispute redressal systems in the Northeast / Ranga Ranjan Das -- The resilience of tribal conflict resolution systems in Northeast India : a panoramic view / Melvil Pereira and R.P. Athparia -- Mizo customary laws and the discourse of women's rights / V. Sawmveli -- PART II. FIGHTS IN THE FIELD: CASE STUDIES OF RESOLUTION SYSTEMS FROM THE COMMUNITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIA: Traditional methods of conflict resolution of the Sumi Naga tribe / Herali Achumi and Alphonsus D'Souza -- The hall without walls -- the role of namghars in peace-building : practices and prospects / Jayanta Madhab Tamuly -- The Khasi-Pnar ideology of peace and conflict resolution / Valentina Pakyntein -- Indigenous methods of conflict resolution in Sikkim : a case study on the dzumsa / Ganga Maya Tamang -- Exploring traditional approaches to resolving conflicts over land resources : the case of the Nyishi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh / Tame Ramya -- Hmar traditional practices in conflict resolution : an anthropological perspective / Immanuel Zarzosang Varte and R. Th. Varte -- Conflict and systems for its resolution among the Paites of Manipur / H. Kamkhenthang -- Forums for conflict resolution in the Jaintia tribal community over land resources / Rikil Chyrmang -- Indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms : a study on the Riang of Tripura / Janet Florine Tellis -- Epilogue / Thomas C.B.P. Small.