“Understanding Underdevelopment in Northeast India”

Abstract

Northeast India is the eastern-most region of India. The seven sisters consist of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim (Hooda, 2018). Though the region is rich in natural resources and social capital but it is one of the least economically develop region of the country. Economic development has been a major concern in human history. How do we understand development and what are the parameters of development is a debatable issue in the domain of human and social science. With the formation of communities where production was based on surrounding environment development inherently deposits the centrality of production that sustains human life (Xaxa, 1990).