Nag Club

Nag Club
Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Walker Books Limited
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2004
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780744597967

Boggle hats are the latest thing. Everybody at school wants one - but only Lola actually has one. She decides to form a club to show the other children how to nag their parents into buying them one. However, the children get mixed results. 8 yrs+

In the club

In the club
Author: Benjamin B Cohen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0719098106

In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia’s colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores colonial club life with chapters arranged thematically: the legal underpinnings of clubs; their physical locations and compositions; their financial health; the role of servants and staff as employees of clubs; issues of race and class in clubs; women’s clubs; and finally clubs in their postcolonial milieus. This book will be critical reading for scholars of South Asia, graduate students, and intellectually engaged club members alike.

Colonization, Proselytization, and Identity

Colonization, Proselytization, and Identity
Author: Tezenlo Thong
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2016-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319439340

This book examines the formation of identity of the Nagas in northeast India in light of the proselytizing efforts by the Americans and the colonization by the British in their search for control over areas inhabited by the Nagas which were perfect for tea plantations. The author explores the westernization of Naga culture, its effect on the Naga Nationalist movement, and how it has led to the formation of modern Naga identity. As a unique indigenous group, the colonization of the Naga people offers fresh insights into our understanding of the processes and effects of colonization in India, as well as its long-term negative effects, particularly with regards to the preservation of traditional beliefs and customs.

Nag Club

Nag Club
Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Walker
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781406341829

Boggle hats are the latest thing. Everybody at school wants one - but only Lola actually has one. So she decides to form a club to show the other children how best to nag their parents into buying them one. However, the children get mixed results.

Encounter and Interventions

Encounter and Interventions
Author: Sajal Nag
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2023-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100092713X

The advent of colonialism and its associated developments has been characterized as one of the most defining moments in the history of South Asia. The arrival of Christian missionaries has not only been coeval to colonial rule, but also associated with development in the region. Their encounter, critique, endeavour and intervention have been very critical in shaping South Asian society and culture, even where they did not succeed in converting people. Yet, there is precious little space spared for studying the role and impact of missionary enterprises than the space allotted to colonialism. Isolated individual efforts have focused on Bengal, Madras, Punjab and much remains to be addressed in the context of the unique region of the North East India. In North East India, for example, by the time the British left, a majority of the tribals had abandoned their own faith and adopted Christianity. It was a socio-cultural revolution. Yet, this aspect has remained outside the scope of history books. Whatever reading material is available is pro-Christian, mainly because they are either sponsored by the church authorities or written by ecclesiastical scholars. Very little secular research was conducted for the hundred years of missionary endeavour in the region. The interpretations, which have emerged out of the little material available, are largely simplistic and devoid of nuances. This book is an effort to decenter such explanations by providing an informed historical and cultural appreciation of the role and contribution of missionary endeavors in British India.

Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif
Author: Jean Michaud
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442272791

Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on about 300 groups, the ten countries they live in, their historical figures, and their salient political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more.

Shelter in Place

Shelter in Place
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250161592

After surviving a mass shooting at a movie theater a group of survivors navigate trauma and recovery.

Karma

Karma
Author: Boy George
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2023-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1785120379

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS 'In what might be the most entertaining music memoir since Elton John's Me, Boy George's Karma weaves a meandering path through several decades' of fame, success, crash and burn, before delivering him into a kind of autumnal meditative serenity... This is George O'Dowd in all his exhausting glory.' Observer 'I went to a lot of trouble to create Boy George and then I went through a whole battle for years about not wanting to be him. But now I enjoy and embrace it in a way that I wasn't able to as a young person.... I'm finally learning to be George Alan O'Dowd from Eltham.' Karma is the definitive autobiography from the incomparable Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of Culture Club and LGBTQ+ vanguard: Boy George. Told in his inimitable style, Karma tells the story of the charismatic frontman - the drama, the music, his journey of addiction and recovery, surviving prison, meeting legends like David Bowie, Prince and Madonna, and the highs and lows of a life lived in the spotlight and in the headlines. This is the explosive and searingly honest account of Boy George's life as a child growing up in sixties London, coming out to his Irish Catholic family and exploring his sexuality through the hedonism of the seventies - the glam rock and punk rock revolution that birthed Culture Club - and the heydays of the nineties, to finally embracing the man and artist that he is today. With all the humour, honesty, sarcasm (and hats!) that you'd expect, Karma gives us a unique insight into Boy George's incredible story and the true evolution of a music icon. 'Culture Club is always going to be one of those lovers I go back to. I've railed against it and that Boy George character I created. For years I convinced myself I was a creature of habit, unchangeable, immovable. But eventually you have to look in the mirror. Not looking for spots, looking for something deeper. Why the hell am I here? I would say life is the point of life.'

Contesting Marginality

Contesting Marginality
Author: Sajal Nag
Publisher: Technical Publications
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

North-East India Has, Over The Years, Become Synonymous With Secessionism, Insurgency, Violence And Turbulence. The Present Study Is About This Crisis And How It Led The Hill Communities To Organize And Equip Themselves, Debate And Decide Their Future Course Of Action And Confront The Colonial And Post-Colonial Indian States And The Process Through Which This Confrontation Led To The Growth Of Secessionism. This Book Details The Entire Process From The Pre-British Period To Date During Which The Movement Itself Underwent Several Crises And Metamorphoses And As A Result Some Struggles Crumpled While Others Still Carry On The Revolt. Although A Number Of Bestsellers Are Available On The Subject, This Is The First Serious Academic Work Written By A Professional Historian.