Colonial Arunachal Pradesh and Contested Space

Time in Reflection

Abstract

India might look like a phenomenon totemising a unified, integrated, all-embracing independence, and appear macrocosmically one, but, in reality, it is microcosmically many - a typically polycentric construct. Such polycentrism invites a dispassionate analysis of the nuances of the Indian states and their society. It too by itself warrants a relooking through the lens of historical reconstruction. This paper looks at a multitude of events, metaphors, memories and the magnitude of affairs, policies, strategies, skirmishes, quelling and treaties in colonial Arunachal Pradesh reflected through a critical thinking of the period with theorization of time and also attempts to analyze selected events, processes and structures to develop a perspective on an emerging Arunachal Pradesh.