The paper maps the challenges and possibilities of sociological research in India’s Northeast. Combining textual evidence and personal experience, the paper brings out the limitations of the Euro-centric and nation-state perspectives to make sociology meaningful to students of the Northeastern region. Strongly critiquing methodological nationalism as highly insensitive to societies and cultures at the margins, the paper calls for reflexivity and a shift from a view from above to a view from below. It also brings out the importance of Northeast as a site for testing and validation of theories. The complexity and diversity of the region, contradictions and paradoxes, shifting and multiple identities, and fast pace of change that descended on the region provide ample scope for scholars to venture into new areas of research and experiment with new approaches and paradigms.