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Author: Dr. Dhanabir Laishram
ISBN: 978-93-82395-13-3
Binding: Hard Cover
First Edition: 2013
About the Author:
Dr. Dhanabir Laishram is a Guest Faculty
Member, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU) (Regional Centre
Manipur). He is working as an Associate Professor in Regional College
and former Guest Faculty Member, Dept. of Political Science, Manipur
University. He, born in 1954, hails from the unique village of Thongju in
Manipur.
He has travelled widely. In 1977 he participated in the
Working Groups for Indigenous People at the United Nations in Geneva. He
participated in the working groups again in 1999 and 2000. He got ESPERANTO
learning in 2001 in Netherlands. He went to Thailand in 2001 and Shan states in
Myanmar in 2005 to study genesis of Tai people. He is a member of Universal
Esperanto Association, Netherlands. He was also one of the members of NEPI
(North East People Initiative).
Dr. Dhanabir Laishram has published seven books and several
articles on various aspects of North East India in national and international
journals. He is also very popular permanent columnist of "The
Poknapham" and "The People's Chronicle."
About the Book:
Governments have come and Governments have gone in these
sixty-seven years. All of them talked about food security, poverty elimination
and more employment. But in India more than two lakhs fifty thousand farmers
were committed suicide since 1991. As we know that Manipur is very small state
having nearly 27 lakhs of population, but very difficult to understand. It is
really fail state. Even from political theory, one can identify it as fragile
state because it has full of negative indices such as: Electoral rigging and
irregularities, protest demonstration by use of violence, anomic disturbances
under-ground activities and armed attacks, political defections for selfish
gains (before Anti Defection Bill was passed), fragmentation of political
parties, suppression of dissent, Idolisation of the rulers, glorification of
the official ideology, political assassinations, politicisation of the armed
forces, commitment of public services to the line of ruling party, wide
corruption and maladministration, concentration of powers, mass killing and
large scale migration of both internal and external.
These are because of failure of administration and not
having good governance. The administrators both permanent and political
executive are heeding to bring development of state without development of
their administration. It would also be one of the important factors of the
causes of political violence in Manipur. Now the pertinent question is how it
had been happened and deeply rooted to the administrative units of Manipur. The
answer should be, these are coming from political environment, in which whether
people are really possess the participant political culture or parochial in
character. In short civil society could not control the political society
instead they are in the trap of depoliticisation in this neo-liberalism. On the
other hand people of valley possess mixture of both participant and subjective
political culture while hill people associate with mixture of participant and
parochial political culture.
Basically, political environment is the demands of the
people which should be channelized through political communications like mass
media, political parties and pressure groups. It should come to polity after
checked by the political debate in between ruling elites and opposition
parties, mainly best parliamentarians. Then it will be discussed in the house
and finally made decision. It becomes the input and fall again to political
environment. In short the people are working as attentive public in the political
environment, which has to work in the political system. Political actor means
having interaction and reaction with the existing system. But in democratic
system if the people are not attentive and working as good actors the dream of
good governance will be a far cry because success leis to partnership with
civil society. So the third way (CSO) has to play an important role along with
state and market in governance and development. The major question is that how
far it could be possible in democratic institution without democratic politics
or social democracy.
Viewed politically then, New Economic Policy (LPG) in India
is likely to appear different from what it does within traditional government
and dichotomy of civil society as unsuccessful partnership. The present study
is one of such kind to attempt the short fault of it particularly in Manipur,
which is being beset many vexed problems. It is descriptive and analytical type
of research work. It needs to be taken for how it is happened: exploratory in
nature and tentative in conclusion. However, the study is an attempt at a
departure of a major kind. If the issues that have come up in the course of the
study are taken up, contested and carried forward by greater minds, its
objective will be fulfilled.
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