Modern Practices in North East India

This book explores how areas such as knowledge production, violence, relations of gender, or political and social-cultural relations, bear the multiple or contradictory imprints of the ideas and practices of modernity. It is useful for scholars and researchers interested in North East India. Introduction: Frames of region and people: practices of knowledge and representations Part I: Region, frontier and state 1. Region formed and imagined: Reconsidering temporal, spatial and social context of Kāmarūpa 2. Conquest and the quotidian: Violence and the making of Tripura (1760-1793) 3. The arteries of empire: Routes, people and mobility in colonial Naga Hills (1850s-1920s) Part II: Knowledge, people and representation 4. Vai phobia to Raj nostalgia: Sahibs, chiefs and commoners in colonial Lushai hills 5. Text, knowledge and representation: Reading gender in Sumi marriage practices 6. Orality: Analysing its politics within the domains of the Mizo narrative 7. Empire and the making of a narrative: The Ballad of the General and its history as a historical source in colonial Assam Part III: Writing culture, writing politics 8. Of people and their stories: Writings in English from India's Northeast 9. Close encounters of the real kind: The avatars of terror in two Assamese short stories 10. Subdued Eloquence: Poetics of body movement, time and space