Seeing Sociologically- Measuring the relationship between two border states: Nagaland and Assam

Abstract

- The study between two border state is significant in understanding the shape of the relationship among two entirely different cultures. This paper undertakes the task of understanding how one state influences the other and the assimilation among the two states. Assam and Nagaland shares approximately 434km boundary. And the both states share a remarkable relationship; The unrestricted movement of people across this border over time has enhanced social and cultural ties and expanded economic interdependence between two countries of people, who shares many commonalities. The selected Foothill village is an indigenous community residing in the border region of Nagaland and Assam. In this case of a border village, its liminality exposes it to the forces of assimilation from both the larger Assamese food culture as well as other tertiary globalizing forces of the neoliberal market regime. Thus, by sustaining their indigenous traditions, the foothill village have produced a counter paradigm against such assimilative forces and have been able to mark out a space for their traditional peculiarities, their identity, to be precise.