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Mizo Discovery of the British Raj

Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920

Mizo Discovery of the British Raj

Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920

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Hardback

£85.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009267342
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 02/11/2023
Width: 15.7 cm
Height: 23.5 cm
High in the eastern Himalayan foothills, people had a unique vantage point on the British Empire. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from historical Indigenous perspectives of encounters with empire from the 1890s to the 1920s. Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author through the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, Kyle Jackson sheds new light on the complex and violent processes of how and why diverse populations of highland clans in the Indo-Burmese borderlands came to rede?ne themselves as Christian Mizos. By using historical Indigenous concepts and logics to approach early twentieth-century imperial encounters, Jackson guides readers into a decolonial history of Northeast India, demonstrating the value of thinking not just about the histories of colonized peoples and concepts but also with them.
Illustrations; Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Coming into View: Trade, Violence, Coercion (1870–1899); 2: Reading the Forest: Roads, Animals, Converts (1891–1912); 3 Adopting the Missionary: Messages, Commodities, Technologies (1894–1908); 4. Sensing the Mission: Hearing, Tasting, Harhna (1910s); 5. Crisis and Conversion: Bamboo, Debt, Disease (1906–1924); Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.

Kyle Jackson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver)

Kyle Jackson teaches at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

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