The circular causation of ethnicity and development in North East India

The relationship between ethnicity and development needs to be scrutinized at this juncture when a number of rising demands come from a basis fully engraved of ethnic realities. This is more observed when there is an insertion of nation- state model of political institution to a society highly knit by primordial realities. The paper tries to look at the circular relationship between ethnicity and development in a specific context of multi ethnic society of north east India.