Social well-being, ethnicity and regional development in Mizoram, Northeast India. SAITLUANGA, B., HMANGAIHZELA, L., & LALFAKZUALA, J. GeoJournal, 87(4):3277–3289, 2022. ![Social well-being, ethnicity and regional development in Mizoram, Northeast India [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Measurement of social well-being among deprived communities is crucial to assess the extent of marginalization and identify their needs for develop- ment and planning. In India, Scheduled Tribes are considered as one of the most marginalized and least developed communities. At the same time, their levels of well-being vary from one place to another which is relatively neglected and hardly examined. The present study is an attempt to assess levels of social well-being among tribes in Mizoram, Northeast India. It also examines the relationship between inequality, marginalization and autonomy movement in the state. Principal Component Analysis shows that minority tribes in the remote southern regions have shown relatively lower standard of living. The low level of well-being of ethnic minorities in the south is attributed to the process of peripheralization starting from the colonial period. The homelands of ethnic minorities in Mizoram coincide with the more periph- eral, remote and less developed areas which are turning into ‘terrain of struggle’ due to inter-ethnic conflicts. The paper argued that provision of autono- mous councils to the southern tribes in the post- Independence period has largely failed to reduce the gap between the dominant tribe in the north and the minority tribes in the south but rather encourages other communities to demand autonomy. Under this cir- cumstances, it is advocated that the approach to decentralization in Northeast India and Mizoram in particular to be shifted from ethnic-based to place- based decentralization with emphasis on local development.
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series = {Asia},
title = {Social well-being, ethnicity and regional development in {Mizoram}, {Northeast} {India}},
volume = {87},
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abstract = {Measurement of social well-being among deprived communities is crucial to assess the extent of marginalization and identify their needs for develop- ment and planning. In India, Scheduled Tribes are considered as one of the most marginalized and least developed communities. At the same time, their levels of well-being vary from one place to another which is relatively neglected and hardly examined. The present study is an attempt to assess levels of social well-being among tribes in Mizoram, Northeast India. It also examines the relationship between inequality, marginalization and autonomy movement in the state. Principal Component Analysis shows that minority tribes in the remote southern regions have shown relatively lower standard of living. The low level of well-being of ethnic minorities in the south is attributed to the process of peripheralization starting from the colonial period. The homelands of ethnic minorities in Mizoram coincide with the more periph- eral, remote and less developed areas which are turning into ‘terrain of struggle’ due to inter-ethnic conflicts. The paper argued that provision of autono- mous councils to the southern tribes in the post- Independence period has largely failed to reduce the gap between the dominant tribe in the north and the minority tribes in the south but rather encourages other communities to demand autonomy. Under this cir- cumstances, it is advocated that the approach to decentralization in Northeast India and Mizoram in particular to be shifted from ethnic-based to place- based decentralization with emphasis on local development.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2023-07-28},
journal = {GeoJournal},
author = {SAITLUANGA, Benjamin and HMANGAIHZELA, Lal and LALFAKZUALA, Joseph},
year = {2022},
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