Nari rustomji biography of george

The inability to adopt correct strategies for conflict resolution by the state governments would soon be egging on divisiveness

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The legendary Nari Rustomji, whose name would forever be taken with great reverence for his service to the North East once wrote rather sagely that “India’s dilemma in inheriting the frontiers from the British was that she found herself having to deal with a multiplicity of tribes of whose way of life and thinking she had little knowledge and even less experience.” The proclamation of the administrator, scholar and thinker, unfortunately, continues to be true even 40 years after he penned—or published—the above in his piece-de-resistance “Imperilled Frontiers: India’s North-Eastern Borderland” in 1983.

It is unfortunate that there is neither a quest for knowledge about the North East—save sundry seminars and conferences on the region (especially in the high