Basing their arguments on ethnophilosophy, developed by African philosophers, which focuses on the specific ethno-cultural characteristics of a particular community, the authors seek to interpret and understand North East India, a vast region of multiple ethnic communities, and attempt to correct the hitherto hegemonic explanations offered by the Indian nation-state. They root this will-to-power in psychological and theoretical residues left over from colonialism, which have contaminated the state's way of dealing with insurgency. Providing detailed discussions of three communities, the Nagas, Mizos and the Assamese, the authors suggest that what we are witnessing is not 'insurgency' as alleged by the Indian state but the emergence of 'nations-from-below'. These nascent politics are striving to posit a 'politics of difference' that empowers them to assert their identities and affirm their ethno-cultural roots. The book also provides a critique of the methods and findings of the early ethnography of this region.