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About this book
As India and the world are roiled by questions of nationalism and identity, this book journeys into the history of one of the world’s newest and most fascinating regions: Northeast India. Having appeared with the stroke of a pen in 1947, as the British Raj was torn asunder and partitioned into India and Pakistan, this is a region of hills inhabited by myriad tribes. Until colonial rule, they had lived in their ancient ways largely unmolested by their neighbours, who were rather keen to avoid their traditions of head-hunting.
Samrat Choudhury chronicles the processes by which these remote hill-tribes, and the diverse other peoples inhabiting the valley of the vast Brahmaputra River below, became parts of the ‘imagined nation’ that is India. Through the invention of the Northeast, he explores two other ideas of India that remain in daily competition: Bharat, the Hindu nationalist conception of the country, and Hindustan, the Persian-origin name by which India is still known as far west as Turkey. Taking a long view, this absorbing political history chronicles the separate pathways by which imperialism, Christianity and the British love of tea brought each of the contemporary region’s constituent states, kicking and screaming, into modern India.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Tea, Christianity and Modernity: Entering India and the Modern World
- 2. The Politics of Representation: World Wars, Partitions and Independence
- 3. The Naga Rebellion: The Long Fight for Freedom
- 4. Manipur’s Princes and Rebels: Assimilating and Separating through the Ages
- 5. Tripura’s Slow Journey to the Periphery: From Connectedness to Split Personality
- 6. Mizoram’s Century of Transformation: Chiefs, Commoners, Slaves and Citizens
- 7. Meghalaya: Megalithic, Mysterious, Matrilineal and Modern
- 8. Arunachal Pradesh Between China and India: Quick Trip to Maps and Modernity
- 9. Sikkim and the Completion of Region-Making: The Northeast in Modern India
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover