The Mizo Society in Transition
Author: Chitta Ranjan Nag
Publisher: South Asia Books
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13:
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Becoming Something Else
Author: N.William Singh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015-11-25
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1443886335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India’s northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies. Each chapter questions the nature of change, and highlights issues which are not a matter of choice but of conviction of the society. This volume will be informative to students and researchers in area studies programmes, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, law, public administration, and ethnology.
Education and Society in a Changing Mizoram
Author: Lakshmi Bhatia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0415589207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an ethnographic study in cultural politics that aims to analyse the geopolitically significant Mizo society in transition through the lens of education. It focuses on the experience and practice of education and the role it can play to usher in peace and promote tolerance.
Modernisation of the Mizo Society
Author: Ram Narayan Prasad
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9788170998891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers In The Volume Attempt To Study Issues Relating To Modernisation/Development Of Mizoram In Analysing The Problems And Constraints, The Socio-Economic Development Such As Urbanisation, Utilisation Of Local Resources, Improvement Of Infrastructure And Facilities, Local Self Government Etc. The 74Th Constitutional Amendment Is The Subject Of One Of The Papers.
Education and Society in a Changing Mizoram
Author: Lakshmi Bhatia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1136198059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated in the domain of cultural politics, the book with rich ethnographical data from Mizoram, a lesser known and understood state, brings the community, state and culture to centre-stage, along with family and stratification of the sociological discourse in education. The book argues for a re-look at school education in Mizoram, besides providing critical insights into the North East region as a whole. It also points to the dilemmas of development in that region and suggests possible ways out of the impasse. Marking a significant departure from conventional thinking on education as 'human capital' as reflected in North-East Vision: 2020, the book strongly advocates the need for critical pedagogies based on learning from conflict; inculcating the values of tolerance and compassion as a precursor to peace; reconceptualising `development, not merely as 'economic' but as indicator of national happiness and valuing lives equally besides respect for traditional institutions, thus marking a break from the much resented paternalism that underpins all state interventions in education. One of the first studies of its kind regarding experience and practice of education, the book makes an important contribution to the role that education can play to usher in peace and promote respect for differences.
Contested Belonging
Author: B. G. Karlsson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1136827609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea gardens and reserved forests, Rabhas were forced to become labourers under the forest department. Today, large-scale illegal deforestation and the global interest in wildlife conservation once again jeopardize their survival. Karlsson describes the development of the Rabha people, their ways of coping with the colonial regime of scientific forestry and the depletion of the forest, as well as with present day concerns for wilderness and wildlife restoration and preservation. Central points relate to the construction of identity as a form of subaltern resistance, the Rabha;s ongoing conversion to Christianity and their ethnic mobilisation, and the agency involved in the construction of cultural or ethnic identities.
Mizo Polity and Political Modernisation
Author: Chitta Ranjan Nag
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House Private
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 168
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Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9788180695148
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Victims of Progress
Author: John H. Bodley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-08-14
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1442226943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictims of Progress, now in its sixth edition, offers a compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world. Bodley’s expansive look at the struggle between small-scale indigenous societies, and the colonists and corporate developers who have infringed their territories reaches from 1800 into today. He examines major issues of intervention such as social engineering, economic development, self-determination, health and disease, global warming, and ecocide. Small-scale societies, Bodley convincingly demonstrates, have survived by organizing politically to defend their basic human rights. Providing a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costs—shedding light on how we are all victims of progress—the sixth edition features expanded discussion of “uprising politics,” Tebtebba (a particularly active indigenous organization), and voluntary isolation. A wholly new chapter devotes full coverage to the costs of global warming to indigenous peoples in the Pacific and the Arctic. Finally, new appendixes guide readers to recent protest petitions as well as online resources and videos.
Negotiating Culture
Author: Margaret L. Pachuau
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-01-30
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9356400199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these phenomenal essays, 14 scholars take stock of the effects and response to identity, and culture studies within Mizo literary narratives. The essays address issues that contextualize the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for identity within the Mizo perspective. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and attempt to locate and situate dynamics that are related to orality, history and narrative. Linking the concern with identity to popular literature, individualism, and the need to draw borderlines, the essays identify the most important topics in individual and collective identities in the Mizo. The illuminating essays contextualize developments within Mizo intellectual history, and display aspects that relate to the continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature, ethnography, and ethnic and cultural studies. From orality, colonial, and postcolonial parameters, the book analyzes the ways in which colonial struggles have continued to contribute to postcolonial discourse in the Mizo, by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western cultures.
