Highly complex yet remarkably poorly understood—India’s Northeast region has endured decades of conflicts that have kept much of the region militarized and economically underdeveloped. Comprising over a dozen of specially written scholarly essays, this book is a rethinking on new ways of approaching these conflicts and on ways to resolve them. The essays provide analyses of the conflicts at three levels: structural determinants like poverty and underdevelopment; the nature and politics of the postcolonial state; and the agency of multiple actors with diverse motives. Contributors to the book work for a variety of institutions in India and abroad and they include academics, journalists and a civil servant. A majority of them have roots in Northeast India.