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  title info:
    title: Against state, against history
    sub title: freedom, resistance, and statelessness in upland northeast India
  name:
    name part: Guite, Jangkhomang
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ii
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: lviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Living in the shadow of state is not a dark, static and silent world. It was the world in full radiance, involving multiple process of reenactment to life, lifeways and relationship. If state and history demonized the hill people as the 'pest' and 'nuisance' to civilization, and the hill practices as the 'relics' of the 'primitive,' the hillmen's narratives celebrated them as their core cultural collective. Against State, Against History is a radical reevaluation of the dominant civilizational narratives on the 'tribe' and attempts to recast their history in the light of recent historiography that presents the hillmen as state evading population. Bringing together both conventional and oral narratives, and from the counter-perspectives of the margin, the book explores the conditions in which section of valley population escaped to the hills, their migration history, how they reenact their space, society, culture and economy in the hills. Their physical dispersion in the highland terrain, choosing an independent village polity, defended by trained warriors, fortressed at the top of hills, connected by repulsive pathways, following jhum economy, and adopting a pliable social, cultural, ethnic and gender formations, are their counter cultural collective at the margins of state. They were reenacted to prevent state control and the emergence of domination relations in the hills. This process is understood as unstate involving the process of disowning state and becoming an egalitarian society where freedom of individuals was located at the core of their cultural collective.
  table of contents: List of figures and table -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: on being Hillmen. An enormous dead level: daunting geography, rippling states -- The great escape: peopleing the blue hills -- DIvided we stand: space, settlement, and population distribution pattern -- Pathways, citadels, and sentinels of the hills -- A pleasurable toil: food, freedom, and livelihood -- Chiefs, commoners, and the babel of tongues -- Between the worlds upside down: summoning folktales -- Renouncer, restorer, and defender: daughters of the hills -- Symbiotic hill-valley relationship: transactions of space, manpower, and resources. Conclusion: disowning state, becoming egalitarian -- References -- Index -- About the author.
  note: Jangkhomang Guite.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Mountain people
    geographic: India, Northeastern
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: India, Northeastern
    topic: Scheduled tribes
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: India, Northeastern
    topic: Politics and government
  classification: GN635.I4 G8154 2019
  classification: 305.8009541
  identifier: 9780199489411
  identifier: 0199489416
  identifier: 9780199094158
  identifier: 0199094152
  identifier: 2019300029
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190520
    record change date: 20200117105624.0
    record identifier: in00004094575