Colonialism and Resistance (eBook, ePUB)

Society and State in Manipur
Redaktion: Noni, Arambam; Sanatomba, Kangujam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a new approach to the study of colonialism and politics of resistance in Northeast India, especially in Manipur, critiquing its dominant historiography. Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, the volume deals with a wide range of issues including constructions of the Northeast, process of ethnicisation, resistance, rebellions and social movements, tribes, literature, imperial strategies, Christian missionaries, and geopolitics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317270652
• Artikelnr.: 49352758

Autorenporträt

Arambam Noni is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Moirang College, Manipur, India, and Executive Editor of Alternative Perspectives. Kangujam Sanatomba is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, and Research Associate at the Centre for South East Asian Studies, Manipur University, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Framework, Administration and Democratisation 1. Cast
of Colonialism: Constructing the Peculiar North East India Arambam Noni 2.
Colonial Administration, Knowledge and Intervention: Colonial Project of
Ethnicisation in Manipur Homen Thangjam 3. Revisiting the Kuki Rebellion
and Nupi Lan Lisham Henthoiba 4. Colonialism and Movement of Democracy in
Manipur Konthoujam Indrakumar Part II: Literature, Popular Culture and
Religion 5. Religious Revivalism and Colonial Rule: Origin of the Sanamahi
movement Khuraijam Bijoykumar Singh 6. Politics, Society and Literature in
Modern Manipur Arambam Noni 7. Desire, Disgrace and Colonialism: A Reading
of Bor Sahib Ongbi Sanatombi Rajkumari Smejita 8. Jesters of Popular Genres
as an Agent of Resistance through Reflexivity Ksh. Imokanta Singh Part
III: Imperial Strategies and Distinct Political Histories 9. Situating
Manipur in the Geopolitics of Imperial Powers Laishram Churchil 10.
Consolidation of British 'Indirect Rule' in Manipur Naorem Malemsanba
Meetei 11. Interrogating into the Political Status of Manipur Kangujam
Sanatomba 12. Christian Missionaries and Colonialism in the Hills of
Manipur Lianboi Vaiphei Part IV: Post-Empire Manipur, Organisational
Politics and Frontier 13. Organisational Politics in 20th Century Manipur:
Trajectories and Footprints Arambam Noni 14. Polemics of the Manipur Merger
Agreement, 1949 Kangujam Sanatomba 15. Centrality of Body Politics in
Thockchand's Script and Cultural Revivalism in Manipur Naorem Malemsanba
Meetei 16. Recasting Space: Politics of Frontier Making Thingnam Sanjeev.
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