Manipur Past And Present Nagas Kuki Chins

The field study inprints an analyses certain aspects of socio-cultural life of Kukis, their issues of identity in comparison with other tribal clans, militancy and its root with ample mastery and exhaustively from an inter-disciplinary position, with reference to language, geography, colonial history propinquity and the like.

Delving into the past and present of various secessionist movements in Northeast India, political conflict in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, a political movement for autonomy in Darjeeling hills in Eastern India, and the Rohingya migration crisis affecting India and Bangladesh, this book examines the volatile co-existence of competing population groups in Eastern South Asia. Through the conceptual lens of the ‘home’ and feeling of ‘homeland’ in Eastern South Asia, the authors seek answers to three complex but interrelated questions: why is Eastern South Asia facing so many political movements and conflicts? How have the political movements affected the region and people? Why is the number of migrants in this region so high? Answers to these questions are vital to those studying South Asia and interested in understanding this region.

Part of the ‘Transition in Northeastern India’ series, this volume critically explores how Northeast India, especially Manipuri society, responded to colonial rule. It studies the interplay between colonialism and resistance to provide an alternative understanding of colonialism on the one hand, and society and state formation on the other. Challenging dominant histories of the area, the essays provide significant insights into understanding colonialism and its multiple effects on economy, polity, culture, and faith system. It examines hitherto untouched areas in the study of Northeast, and discusses how social movements are augmented, constituted or sustained. This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of modern history, sociology and social anthropology, particularly those concerned with Northeast India.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: steering democratisation and negotiating identity in the Himalayas -- PART I Shifting selves and competing identities -- 1 Seeking identities on the margins of democracy: Jad Bhotiyas of Uttarkashi -- 2 The politics of census: fear of numbers and competing claims for representation in Naga society -- 3 The making of the subaltern Lepcha and the Kalimpong stimulus -- PART II Negotiating democracy -- 4 Monks, elections, and foreign travels: democracy and the monastic order in western Arunachal Pradesh, North-East India -- 5 'Pure democracy' in 'new Nepal': conceptions, practices, and anxieties -- PART III Territorial conflict and after -- 6 Demand for Kukiland and Kuki ethnic nationalism -- 7 Displacement from Kashmir: gendered responses -- Index

This volume examines how protest movement counter-conducts the ways in which the citizens have been governed. It studies the rationale, forms, technologies, techniques, practices, and impact of two protest movements in Northeast India: the tribal movement led by the Joint Action Committee Against Anti-Tribal Bills (hereafter JACAATB) in Manipur, and the anti-corruption movement led by the Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) in Nagaland. The study is an ethnographic enquiry into three counter-conduct approaches: First, the attempt at disciplining the local state government through the adoption and deployment of certain technologies of citizenship, making individuals politically active and capable of self-governance Second, the desire for truth through the usage of Right to Information Act and the judicial inquiry against the misconducts of the state governments Third, counter-conduct activities through techniques of critique and self-examination to not only resist or evade the state, but also usher in new subjectivities and forms of governance An in-depth look at citizenship and state in contemporary Northeast India, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, governance, public policy, Northeast Studies, and South Asia studies.

Articles with reference to Manipur, India.