Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Foreign Department Report on Chin Lushai Hills
Author: Foreign Department Report on Chin Lushai Hills, September 1892
Author: Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Foreign Department Report on Chin Lushai Hills, September 1892
Author: Locality, History, Memory
Author: Rita MukherjeePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443804274
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia was born out of the need to interrogate the tropes through which place, history and memory underpin notions of citizenship in present Southasia. Time as both time present and time past is framed here in two settings: as privileging both place (material or ideological site) and space. The latter refers to religion, oppression, marginalization and/or dalitisation. Time transcends both site/location and actual physical boundaries. Locality or location is therefore envisioned in terms of both actual place as well as a gateway to a larger space, in terms of a situation where historical memory negotiates the increasingly complex present. Agency and contingency therefore assume a critical importance here. Citizenship, far from being a discrete entity, is found to be multidimensional: it refers to formal status and the legal status of nationality and citizenship authenticated in the passport, but it also refers to rights and privileges; identity and solidarity, religious beliefs and a sense of belonging. Moving away from the role of the state, which has been at the centre of all inquiries on citizenship, we ask here the following questions in Locality, History, Memory: How does our history enforce or dilute the notion of the citizen? How far does memory strengthen or weaken it? What role does features not normally associated with citizenship such as access to natural resources, or ritual, faith and religion play in reinforcing such a status? History in the end is written by the historian and it was easy to map the changing methodologies used by the historians to essay the past but this is becoming increasingly difficult now. Another twist is the shift to hypertext at a popular level echoing what the late E H Carr had once called ‘bringing more and more people into history’. These so called alternative histories or people’s histories are becoming more and more popular because of the point at which we are located in time. Moreover, devices afforded by the new media enable these alternative histories to have an immediacy that the conventional historical format lacked. The collapse of state control over the new media has led to the resurgence of many archaic voices unimaginable just a decade ago.
Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills
Author: Pum Khan PauPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000507459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26), which resulted in the British annexation of the North-Eastern Frontier of Bengal and the extension of its sway over the Arakan and Manipur frontiers, and closes with the separation of Burma from India in 1937. The volume documents the resistance of the indigenous hill peoples to colonial penetration; administrative policies such as disarmament; subjugation of the local chiefs under a colonial legal framework and its impact; standardisation of ‘Chin’ as an ethnic category for the fragmented tribes and sub-tribes; and the creation and consolidation of the Chin Hills District as a political entity to provide an extensive account of British relations with the indigenous Chin/Zo community from 1824 to 1935. By situating these within the larger context of British imperial policy, the book makes a critical analysis of the British approach towards the Indo-Burma frontier. With its coverage of key archival sources and literature, this book will interest scholars and researchers in modern Indian history, military history, colonial history, British history, South Asian history and Southeast Asian history.
The Journal of Indo-judaic Studies
Author: Landscape, Culture, and Belonging
Author: Neeladri BhattacharyaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108753140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.
Accessions List, South Asia
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New DelhiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
Proceedings of North East India History Association
Author: North East India History Association. SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India, Northeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Autonomy Movements in Mizoram
Author: Ram Narayan PrasadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mizoram (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Substantially the outcome of papers/articles presented at the Seminar on Autonomy Movements in Mizoram Since Independence, held in Aijal in 1991.