Introduction
1. Method of Research
2. Re-reading the Identity of the Tribals
2.1 Redefining Tribal Identity: Tribals of Northeast India as Hill People/Nonstate People
2.2 NEI - A Zone of Refuge to State Evaders/Nonstate People
2.3 NE Tribals at the State Peripheral Location/Hill is a Political Choice
2.4 The Hill/Self-governing People vis-a-vis State/Subject People
2.5 Unwritten Oral Cultures: Powerful Weapon against Keeping State Power
3. Reading JB's Narratives in the Gospel according to Luke from the Lens of State Formation as Defender of Sovereignty of the Judean Hill People
3.1 JB from the Hill Country of Judea (Luke 1:5-24; 39; 57-80; 3:2)
3.2 Mobility: The Act of JB Moving around in the entire region of the Jordan (Luke 3:3-6) as a Strategy Vis-a-Vis State Powers
3.3 From State Peripheral Jordan: Call for Renewal Baptism of Repentance as techniques for thwarting State Incorporation (Luke 3:3b-9)
3.4 JB's Resistance to the Temple State Makers, the Aristocrats to Prevent State Integration and State Formation in Hill Country (Luke 3:3-9)
3.5 Resistance to the Powerful and Imperial Agents: an act of not being Ruled (Luke 3:10-14)
3.6 Resisting the Roman Client Ruler Herod Antipas from self-Governing Hill People (Luke 3:19-20)
Conclusion