Mizo Discovery of the British Raj - Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 18901920

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.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

Kyle Jackson teaches at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kyle Jackson, Kyle (Kwantlen Polytechnic University Jackson
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009267328
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926732-8
• Pagine: 286
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christianity / General, India, c 1800 to c 1900, Christianity, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1910 to c 1919, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1890 to c 1899, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, North East India