The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj

Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890-1920
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-26734-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Kyle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations; Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Coming into View: Trade, Violence, Coercion (1870–1899); 2: Reading the Forest: Roads, Animals, Converts (1891–1912); 3 Adopting the Missionary: Messages, Commodities, Technologies (1894–1908); 4. Sensing the Mission: Hearing, Tasting, Harhna (1910s); 5. Crisis and Conversion: Bamboo, Debt, Disease (1906–1924); Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jackson, Kyle
Kyle Jackson teaches at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.