Evangelising the Nation

Evangelising the Nation
Author: John Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317413989

Northeast India has witnessed several nationality movements during the 20th century. The oldest and one of the most formidable has been that of the Nagas — inhabiting the hill tracts between the Brahmaputra river in India and the Chindwin river in Burma (now Myanmar). Rallying behind the slogan, ‘Nagaland for Christ’, this movement has been the site of an ambiguous relation between a particular understanding of Christianity and nation-making. This book, based on meticulous archival research, traces the making of this relation and offers fresh perspectives on the workings of religion in the formation of political and cultural identities among the Nagas. It tracks the transmutations of Protestantism from the United States to the hill tracts of Northeast India, and its impact on the form and content of the nation that was imagined and longed for by the Nagas. The volume also examines the role of missionaries, local church leaders, and colonial and post-colonial states in facilitating this process. Lucidly written and rigorous in its analyses, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, religion, political science, sociology and social anthropology, and particularly those concerned with Northeast India.

Britain's Empire

Britain's Empire
Author: Richard Gott
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 184467892X

A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire As the call for a new understanding of our national history grows louder, Britain’s Empire turns the received imperial story on its head. Richard Gott recounts the long-overlooked narrative of resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. In a story of almost continuous colonialist violence, Britain’s crimes unspool from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the globe from Ireland to Australia. Capturing events from the perspective of the colonised, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream histories.

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
Author: N.J. Enfield
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501501704

The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the 'sesquisyllable' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the region's languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.

The British Takeover of Assam

The British Takeover of Assam
Author: Caroline Keen
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2024-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1398122734

This book goes beyond the famous tea and reveals the true impact of Britain's takeover of Assam, India in the nineteenth century. Blending social and economic history, this is an illuminating work that will fascinate anybody with an interest in the history of India or Britain's colonial past.

Where China Meets India

Where China Meets India
Author: Thant Myint-U
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0374533520

"An account of the Asian frontier's long and rich history and its modern significance."--Publisher's description.

The Folk-tales of Burma

The Folk-tales of Burma
Author: Gerry Abbott
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2018-12-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 900439205X

This handbook is the first in-depth overview of the fascinating world of Burmese folk-tales. Part one provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary survey of folk-tale studies, together with a broad functional classification of Burma’s tales. Part two presents, mostly for the first time in a European language, the categorized actual tales themselves. With commentaries on plots and cross-cultural motifs - past and present. With index, substantial bibliography, and suggestions for further research.