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...

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1. Verfasser:	Jackson, Kyle (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Schlagworte:	Christianity and culture / India / Mizoram Lushai (Asian people) / Cultural assimilation Christianity / India / Mizoram / History Missions / India / Mizoram / History Mizoram (India) / History / 20th century Mizoram (India) / Ethnic relations Mizoram (India) / Religious life and customs Great Britain / Colonies / India / History
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	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 redefine 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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Oct 2023) Illustrations -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Coming into view: trade, violence, coercion (1870-1899) -- Reading the forest: roads, animals, converts (1891-1912) -- Adopting the missionary: messages, commodities, technologies (1894-1908) -- Sensing the mission: hearing, tasting, harhna (1910s) -- Crisis and conversion: bamboo, debt, disease (1906-1924) -- Conclusion: A lookout from the Highlands -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 270 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009267359
DOI:	10.1017/9781009267359