Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India
Author:   Roluah Puia (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   216
Publication Date:   24 August 2023
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Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India


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Author:   Roluah Puia (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781009346078


ISBN 10:   1009346075
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   24 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgement; Glossary of terms; List of acronyms; 1. Introduction; 2. The 'Tribal Question' in India: Problem of Inclusion; 3. The Emergence of Mizo Nationalism: The Formative Phase; 4. MNF and the Vernacularization of Nationalism; 5. Violence, Counter-insurgency and the Transcript of Resistance; 6. Discord, Accord and the Politics of Peace; 7. Conclusion; References.

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'… an important intervention in the studies of nations and nationalism, tribal studies, Northeast India studies, border studies, peace and conflict studies and beyond.' Somingam PS, LSE Review of Books


Author Information

Roluahpuia is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR). He was a recipient of the Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian Visiting Fellowship (2018-2019) at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. His research interests broadly concern identity, nationalism, development, and borderland studies. His latest article, 'Unsettled Autonomy: Ethnicity, Tribes and Sub-National Politics in Mizoram, Northeast India' (2021), was published by the journal Nations and Nationalism and was awarded the 2020 Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)-Nations and Nationalism essay prize in memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal.

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