Short Abstract
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This paper analyze the Manao Zongge cultural festival celebrated by Jingpo people in Yunnan province of China, Kachin in Myanmar and Singpho in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in Northeast India. It look at how cultural, social and affinal kinship ties plays an important role in cross border connections that transit modern nation states border demarcation. Further, the studies look at the old road(Stilwell Road or Ledo Road) linkage which passed through India-Myanmar-China inhabited by this ethnic groups has ever since closed after the formation of new state in this three countries. And the dynamics of the regions and geo-politics interplay. The central idea of this paper is to look at how ethic groups along borderland maintain their socio-cultural, economic, linguistics and affinal kinship ties. The ties they maintains along the borderland may or may not goes against nation-state line of demarcation, nevertheless they use their social, cultural and kinship connections to create a space along the border. Therefore, the study apply Ian G. Baird concept of 'hybrid space' and James C. Scott concept of 'state-evading, state-resisting, state-repelling or extra-state space' in analyzing how the borderland communities created space . Does the space created by borderland communities a new form of evading modern nation-state formation.
