Contents
List of Maps and Images
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Looking for an everyday Northeast
Finding a Starting Point
Terminology
Structure of the book
The Making of the Frontier
Tribe
Colonial encounters
The State of Exception
The Migration Moment
Refuge
Livelihoods
Aspirations
Attitudes towards India
Labour recruitment
Connectivity
3. Coming to Delhi
Explaining Delhi's Popularity
Delhi meri jaan
New consumer spaces
The Services Sector
Education City
Job prospects
Education back home
Prestige
Brain Drain
4. Backwards, Head-hunter, Sexy, Chinky
The Racilised Frontier
Backward and exotic
Anti-national
Anti-assimilation
Loose and immoral
Discrimination
Harassment and violence
Responding to Racism
Tolerance
Retaliation
Safety
Race in Contemporary India
5. Provincial Men, Worldly Women
Gendered mythmaking
Urbane Women, Provinvial Men
City Love, Frontier Politics
Stuck in Delhi
Subaltern masculinity
Cosmopolitan masculinity
6. Place-making in the City
The Northeast Map of Delhi
Neighbourhoods
Food
Religion
Protesting in Delhi: New places, new identities?
Solidarity
Cosmopolitanism
Fashion and music
The Korean Wave
Global Christian Culture
7. Conclusion
Borderlands and citizenship
Ethnic Minorities and Asian Cities
Cosmopolitanism
Short Biographical Notes on the Author
Bibliography
Index