1st Edition
War and Nationalism in South Asia The Indian State and the Nagas
By Marcus Franke
Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial.
Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and comparative and theoretical literature, Marcus Franke demonstrates that... Read more
Introduction 1. British Imperial Expansion and Historical Agency – 1820s–1850s 2. The Nagas, the Angami Case – Polity and War, 1820s–1880 3. Imperial Conquest and Withdrawal, 1860s–1947 4. The Transformation of Naga Societies under Colonialism 5. Nation-building and the Nagas, 1947–64 6. The Nagas’ War 7. Divide-and-Rule 8. From Nation to Civil Society. Conclusion
Biography
Marcus Franke is Visiting Lecturer at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg, Germany. His current research focuses on the cosmology of political élites.
