Naga Identity
Author: Braj Bihari Kumar
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9788180691928
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Naga Identities
Author: Michael Oppitz
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9789053496794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Naga tribes inhabit the south-eastern foothills of the Himalayas - the border region between India and Burma. Feared as headhunters and shunned by the inhabitants of the plains the Nagas developed a unique material culture and oral tradition. By around the mid 19th century, however, British colonial rule and Baptist missionary activities brought far-reaching changes to Naga culture. After 1947i the Naga Hills were forcibly integrated into the newly formed Indian Union. The result was a bloodywar that raged for more than fifty years - largely unnoticed by the public eye. Only recently the region has been reopened to foreign visitors. The present volume assembles essays byNaga and Western authors, interviews and pictorial contributions dealing with the cultural history and changing identity of the former headhunters.
Evangelising the Nation
Author: John Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1317413997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNortheast 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.
God, Land, People
Author: Mar Imsong
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789380500072
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Author: Tezenlo Thong
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-15
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 3319439340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Violence and Identity in North-east India
Author: S. R. Tohring
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788183243445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Role of Land in Ethnic Naga Identity: Exploring a Contextual Naga Christian Theology and Social Ethics
Author: Imkong I. Imsong
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781109951080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe proposed outcome of this work is the construction of a way of ethnic Naga identity formation that centers on a renewed conscious of the interrelatedness of God-Land-People, and retrieves, reaffirms, and renews Naga community life.
The Naga Ethnic Movement for a Separate Homeland
Author: Namrata Goswami
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-01-17
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0190990228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamrata Goswami’s research on the Naga armed ethnic movement offers a compelling narrative on how conflict has affected the daily lives of the Nagas. This volume is an account of the Naga ethnic movement going on in India since 1918, covering both historical and contemporary aspects of the conflict. Based on over a decade of ethnographic work among the Naga rebels and movement zones, personal interviews, and secondary data, the author offers insights into how the Naga population perceives their meeting point with the institutions of the Indian state, especially the army and the paramilitary. The book documents what it is like, to live in a conflict zone and the restraints and thought processes that it cultivates especially among the youth. The book reveals gripping stories of tremendous courage and conviction from people who have thought about the political unrest, been born into it, taken part in it, or have been affected by it. The Naga Ethnic Movement for a Separate Homeland reflects the Nagas’ love for their land, tracing the poignant mix of nature, land, identity, emotions, culture as well as the inter-ethnic differences that exacerbate the conflict.
Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging
Author: Arkotong Longkumer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1441187340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India. Drawing upon critical studies of 'religion', cultural/ethnic identity, and nationalism, archival research in both India and Britain, and fieldwork in Assam, the book initiates new grounds for understanding the evolving notions of 'reform' and 'identity' in the emergence of a Heraka 'religion'. Arkotong Longkumer argues that 'reform' and 'identity' are dynamically inter-related and linked to the revitalisation and negotiation of both 'tradition' legitimising indigeneity, and 'change' legitimising reform. The results have deepened, yet challenged, not only prevailing views of the Western construction of the category 'religion' but also understandings of how marginalised communities use collective historical imagination to inspire self-identification through the discourse of religion. In conclusion, this book argues for a re-evaluation of the way in which multi-religious traditions interact to reshape identities and belongings.
Evangelising the Nation
Author: John Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1317413989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNortheast 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.
