Against state, against history : freedom, resistance, and statelessness in upland northeast India /
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...
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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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.