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India’s east and
northeast have since long been a crucible of mobilisations,
counter-mobilisations
as also claims and counter-claims of varied
ideological hues and political ambitions. The unceasing interplay of a cause
for continuity and a demand for accommodating modern liberal influences,
particularly in view of the ethno-cultural mosaic representing this region,
have time and again contributed to a variety of conflicts affecting the
society, polity and even its natural environment. It is also common
knowledge that many a developmental issues concerning the region have
frequently generated contesting dilemmas that imbricates with conflicts of
socio-political nature and has evaded conventional resolution strategies. An
unavoidable consequence of all these have been a radically challenged
democratic consciousness that over and over again sought not only to
displace civic modes for organising social and political life but also, and
perhaps more significantly, to inhibit any dialogic interface among the
contesting stakeholders. Accordingly, this region has often been a subject
of core attention to a host of researchers and policy planners desiring to
comprehend the trends and tragedies that, wittingly or otherwise, seem to
dictate the destiny of the region.
Argue India is one such
research organisation comprising of a group of researchers, belonging from
within and abroad, who are keenly interested in deploying critical and
unorthodox premises and paradigms that can effectively capture the
underlying patterns and processes describing and defining the region. The
research group comprises of people belonging to varied disciplinary streams
but having a coherent commitment to provide comprehensive and meaningful
discourses and policy perspectives that may be of valuable use as far as it
concerns development and quality content of life for the eastern region of
India. Argue India intends to go with programmes and activities that can
generate notable discourses leading to the formulation of the best-suited
policy perspectives through advocacy initiatives and theoretical paradigms
where dialogue and dissent shall be the core defining principles.
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