Somesh Mathur’s Reviews > Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India (Oxford India Collection > Status Update

Durable disorder offers little that's genuinely new: writing decades after the fact about a conflict already exhaustively documented and internationalized, he repackages known failures under a fresh label rather than breaking empirical ground. His method leans on anthropomorphizing systemic actors — which lets him assign blame broadly while sidestepping the actual constrained tradeoffs real decision-makers faced.