For a succinct precis of recent displacement, tribal distributions, figures for internally displaced people (IDPs) and links to related features, try the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

There's a good breakdown of northeastern conflicts, with timelines, articles and analyses at the website of Project Ploughshares, run by the Canadian Council of Churches.

The South Asia Terrorism Portal produces online publications such as the South Asia Intelligence Review and Faultlines. Feature include a detailed, state-by-state conflict history of northeast India published in 2002.

The Asian Centre for Human Rights visited Karbi Anglong in Assam in 2005 and wrote a report on the conflict there and a detailed assessment of the condition of displaced people, Lessons not learned by Assam.

Try also its annual human rights report, which gives a state-by-state breakdown of human rights abuses in the previous year.

The Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (COE-DMHA) produces an Asia-Pacific Daily Report which contains plenty of entries for the northeastern states.

The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi produced a special issue of its journal in 2003 devoted to the Insurgency in the Northeast.

Frontline magazine has done several articles on the northeast including Always only a Corner of India, an analysis of the root problems in the region.

A rare piece of testimony from an international aid worker in Assam was published on the Medecins Sans Frontieres' site in late 2005.

The South Asian Analysis Group has published several papers on the northeast, including a 2006 overview by R.Upadhyay

The Naga peace process is analysed in a 2005 article Naga Resistance Movement and the Peace Process in Northeast India published by the journal Peace and Democracy in South Asia.

The state government websites are here:

• Assam
• Nagaland
• Manipur
• Tripura
• Mizoram
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Meghalaya