Free Download Politics, Society and Cosmology in India's North East By N. Vijaylakshmi Brara 1998 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0195643313 | PDF | 32 MB The author here describes the cultural assimilation of two separate groups in Manipur. They are geographically separated and culturally distinct and yet their myths of origin speak of common parentage. Brara uses the concept of the theatre state, a cultural concept, to understand contemporary politics and ethnicity.