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Against the Empire - Polity, Economy and Culture during the Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919 (Hardcover)
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Against the Empire - Polity, Economy and Culture during the Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919 (Hardcover)
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This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire
during the First World War in the northeast frontier of India (then
the Assam-Burma frontier). It sheds light on how the three-year war
(1917-1919), spanning over 6,000 square miles, is crucial to
understanding present-day Northeast India. Companion to the seminal
The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919, the chapters in this volume: *
Examine several aspects of the Anglo-Kuki War, which had
far-reaching consequences for the indigenous Kuki population,
including economy, politics, identity, indigenous culture and
belief systems, and traditional institutions during and after the
First World War itself; * Highlight finer themes such as the role
of the chiefs and war councils, symbols of communication,
indigenous interpretation of the war, remembrance, and other
policies which continued to confront the Kuki communities; *
Interrogate themes of colonial geopolitics, colonialism and the
missionaries, state making, and the frontier dimensions of the
First World War. Moving away from colonial ethnographies, the
volume taps on a variety of sources - from civilisational discourse
to indigenous readings of the war, from tour diaries to oral
accounts - meshing together the primitive with the modern, the
tribal and the settled. This book will be of great interest to
scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian Studies, area
studies, modern history, military and strategic studies, insurgency
and counterinsurgency studies, tribal warfare, and politics.
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