The colony in British India had at one time designed an inner line to distinguish two separate systems of administration for the frontier areas and the nonfrontier areas of colonial Northeast India. Constructing the frontiers as areas of strife and conflict and from which the nonfrontiers always needed to be secured, the British in creating the line made an instrument of policing the frontiers that has not only persisted but transgressed the colonial administrative structure into the postcolonial era. Although it was designed really for the protection of the nonfrontier areas of Assam from the raiding of the hill tribes of the frontier, in implementation the line prohibited non-natives of the frontiers from adopting interest in land or products of land located behind it. Contemporary movements demanding an inner line in three states of Northeast India have gone back to the idea of a line that divides the territory into two nonhomogenous areas, disallowing non-natives within the inner line from an extended involvement in the areas outside of the line, thus, refrontierizing themselves and giving them the peculiar characteristics of the frontier, wanting to lend themselves an exterior identity that is distinct from the identity of the regular nonfrontier territory in India.

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边境归来

英属印度殖民地一度设计了一条内线，以区分印度东北部殖民地的边境地区和非边境地区两种不同的行政管理制度。将边境建设为冲突和冲突的地区，非边境地区总是需要从中得到保护，英国人在创建这条线时成为了一种监管边境的工具，这种工具不仅持续存在，而且超越了殖民行政结构，进入了后殖民时代。虽然它的真正目的是保护阿萨姆邦的非边境地区免受边境山地部落的袭击，但在实施过程中，这条线禁止非边境本地人对位于其后面的土地或土地产品感兴趣。