H SrikanthH. Srikanth is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India. His research has primarily focused on issues concerning ethnicity, indigenous people and the political economy f Northeast India. Dr Srikanth was awarded the Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research Fellowship to work on Native Indians in British Columbia. His publications include Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: Conflict and Reconciliation in Canada and India (2010) and the co-edited volumes Vision for Meghalaya: On and Beyond Inner Line Permit (2014) and Ethnicity and Political Economy in Northeast India (2016). He has also published many research papers in such journals as International Studies, Economic & Political Weekly and Man and Society. During 2012-2017, he was the editor of the NEHU journal. Read More Read Less