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India, more particularly the North-East India is a land of various ethnic and tribal groups. It has described as the cultural mosaic of diverse tribal communities, linguistics and ethnic identities. This very sensitive region has been in much debate prior to independence. It's because of the ethnicity and extremism prevailed in this particular region. The North East part of India possesses a distinctive geo-political character mainly due to distinctive location from the main land, diverse geographical framework, ethnic diversities, economic backwardness and uneven level of development. development. North -East India has been a homeland of various religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural groups. In this circumstances, various ethnic, linguistic and religious groups demand their separate identity and indulged in identity movement, autonomy movements, secessionist movement etc. North East India is full of diversified ethnic groups living together generation after generation having distinctive historical and structural setting. As a result they have been struggling for upliftment on the basis of their ethnic distinctiveness and for this reason they are indulge in identity Growing violence around in ethnic movements in Northeast India has generated heated debates in the region in regard to the capacity of these movements to democratise the Indian polity and liberate these communities from oppression and marginalization. The debate has now entered such a stage that a number of scholars, who in principle uphold the cause of smaller nationalities in the region argue that there has emerged 'ethnocracay' from within ethnic movements and the politics of these smaller nationalities are now trapped into obsessive and exclusive tendencies which may be defined as 'ethnic traps'. This book broadly tries to overlook the issue of ethnic movement and the eventual question of Human Security and ongoing military operations in northeast India.