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Against the Empire Ngamjahao Kipgen (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Against the Empire By Ngamjahao Kipgen (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Against the Empire by Ngamjahao Kipgen (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

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This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in the Northeast frontier of India (then Assam-Burma frontier). It sheds light on how the three-year war (1917-1919), spanning over 6,000 square miles, is crucial to understanding present-day Northeast India.

Against the Empire Summary

Against the Empire: Polity, Economy and Culture during the Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919 by Ngamjahao Kipgen (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

This volume:

- Sheds light on the making, the life and the aftermath of a very important military uprising in British colonial India during the First World War;
- Examines several aspects of the Anglo-Kuki war, which had far-reaching consequences for the indigenous Kuki population, including economy, politics, identity, gender, indigenous culture and belief systems, and traditional institutions during and after the First World War itself;
- Drawing on archival sources, extensive fieldwork and oral histories, the volume will be a significant contribution to comprehending the complex geopolitics of the North East India.

About Ngamjahao Kipgen (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Ngamjahao Kipgen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He was formerly with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. His research interests lie at the intersection of ethnic identity politics, tribes and indigenous people; ethnicity and nationalism, borderland; dams, hydropower and development politics; political sociology and environmental sociology.

Doungul Letkhojam Haokip is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Gauhati University, Assam, India. Formerly he was at the Department of History, Don Bosco College, Maram Manipur, India. He is the author of Thempu Ho Thu (Priestly Charms of the Kuki) (2000) and editor of Documents of the Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919 (2017).

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I Against the Empire's Army 1. Resistance, War Council and Formation of Militia: The Role of Kuki Chiefs in the Anglo-Kuki War 2. The Zou Gal (1917-19): A Military History with Special Reference to the Zou in Manipur-Chin Borders PART II Colonial Politics and Violence 3. From Co-operation to Coercion: The Anglo-Kuki War as a Response to Changing British Geo-politics 4. Empire of Violence: Colonial State Making and Frontier Violence during the Anglo-Kuki War PART III Logistics, Economy and Livelihood Strategies 5. 'Hunger Is More Savage Than Cannon': Logistics during the Anglo-Kuki War 6. Escape Agriculture, Foraging Culture: The Subsistence Economy of the Kukis during the Anglo-Kuki War 7. Food Security, Ecology and Livelihoods: Examining 'Agro-Political Strategy' of the Kukis and the Anglo-Kuki War PART IV Cultural Symbols, Interpretation and The War 8. The Understanding Between Pre-Understanding and Work of Art: Interpreting Thingkhuo-le-Malcha in the Anglo-Kuki War 9. Colonialism and Khankho: Indigenous Reading of the Anglo-Kuki War PART V Colonialism, Missionisation and After 10. Evangelisation and Colonialism: The Role of 'Christianity' in Anglo-Kuki War 11. Spatialising The Missionary Encounter: Missionary Work and Space in the Aftermath of the Anglo-Kuki War PART VI Commemoration of the War 12. 'Their Tails are Not Down': A Hundred Years of Remembering the Anglo-Kuki War

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Against the Empire: Polity, Economy and Culture during the Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919 by Ngamjahao Kipgen (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Ngamjahao Kipgen (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2020-07-13
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