Dialogue with the self: Political peace and the making of ‘upland’ community

This study gives emphasis on the political subjectivities forming a discursive field as a result of culture of writings, articulations and consciousness of one’s own history, identity, autonomy and rights of a community, and political mobilization of the civil society groups representing such community. Political subjectivity is understood particularly in the context of the ongoing tripartite peace talks among the umbrella organizations representing the Kuki-Chin-Zo people in Manipur, state government of Manipur and union Government of India. A dialogue with the self signifies a political modernity of the Kuki-Chin-Zo people, emerging out of an intellectual and political engagement with the past, a phenomenon of fragmented selves and the politics of autonomy.