Colonialism and Resistance: Society and State in Manipur

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Arambam Noni, Kangujam Sanatomba
Routledge, 2015 M10 16 - 280 pages

Part of the ‘Transition in Northeastern India’ series, this volume critically explores how Northeast India, especially Manipuri society, responded to colonial rule. It studies the interplay between colonialism and resistance to provide an alternative understanding of colonialism on the one hand, and society and state formation on the other. Challenging dominant histories of the area, the essays provide significant insights into understanding colonialism and its multiple effects on economy, polity, culture, and faith system. It examines hitherto untouched areas in the study of Northeast, and discusses how social movements are augmented, constituted or sustained.

This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of modern history, sociology and social anthropology, particularly those concerned with Northeast India.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
constructing the peculiar North East India
of ethnicisation in Manipur
LISHAM HENTHOIBA
KONTHOUJAM INDRAKUMAR
origin of the Sanamahi
Politics society and literature in modern Manipur
Consolidation of British indirect rule in Manipur
Interrogating into the political status of Manipur
LIANBOI VAIPHEI
trajectories
Polemics of the Manipur Merger Agreement 1949
Centrality of body politics in Thokachanbas script and cultural
politics of frontiermaking
Glossary

a reading of Bor Saheb Ongbi
Jesters of popular genres as agents of resistance through reflexivity
Situating Manipur in the geopolitics of imperial powers

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About the author (2015)

Arambam Noni is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Moirang College, Manipur, India, and Executive Editor of Alternative Perspectives.

Kangujam Sanatomba is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, and Research Associate at the Centre for South East Asian Studies, Manipur University, India.

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