Book Description
The book challenges the stereotypes about and narrates the daily lives of the Mizos through the use of vernacular photography.
Joy L. K. Pachuau is Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has contributed chapters in books like Portuguese Presence in India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Religion in Indian History: Ideas, Practice, and Chance and Chin: History Culture and Identity. Her articles have been published in Studies in History and Eastern Quarterly.Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History, University of Amsterdam. He is the author of A History of Bangladesh, The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia and The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland, to name a few. He has curated several photography exhibitions, including the acclaimed 'Mizo Modernities'; Festival of the Northeast Cultures of Peace.