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Against the Empire: Polity, Economy and Culture during the Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919 book cover

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Against the Empire Polity, Economy and Culture during the Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919

Edited By Ngamjahao Kipgen, Doungul Letkhojam Haokip Copyright 2021
280 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

280 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

280 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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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:... Read more

Introduction

Ngamjahao Kipgen and Doungul Letkhojam Haokip

 

 

PART I

Against the Empire’s Army

 

1. Resistance, War Council and Formation of Militia: The Role of Kuki Chiefs in the Anglo-Kuki War

Sheikhohao Kipgen

 

2. The Zou Gal (1917-19): A Military History with Special Reference to the Zou in Manipur-Chin Borders

S. Thangboi Zou

 

 

PART II

Colonial Politics and Violence

 

3. From Co-operation to Coercion: The Anglo-Kuki War as a Response to Changing British Geo-politics

David Hanneng

 

4. Empire of Violence: Colonial State Making and Frontier Violence during the Anglo-Kuki War

Robert Lunkhopao

 

 

PART III

Logistics, Economy and Livelihood Strategies

 

5. ‘Hunger Is More Savage Than Cannon’: Logistics during the Anglo-Kuki War

Doungul Letkhojam Haokip

6. Escape Agriculture, Foraging Culture: The Subsistence Economy of the Kukis during the Anglo-Kuki War

Thongkholal Haokip

 

7. Food Security, Ecology and Livelihoods: Examining ‘Agro-Political Strategy’ of the Kukis and the Anglo-Kuki War

Ngamjahao Kipgen

 

 

PART IV

Cultural Symbols, Interpretation and The War

 

8. The Understanding Between Pre-Understanding and Work of Art: Interpreting Thingkhuo-le-Malcha in the Anglo-Kuki War

Zamminlien

 

9. Colonialism and Khankho: Indigenous Reading of the Anglo-Kuki War

Hemkhochon Chongloi

 

 

PART V

Colonialism, Missionisation and After

 

10. Evangelisation and Colonialism: The Role of ‘Christianity’ in Anglo-Kuki War

Jangkholam Haokip

 

11. Spatialising The Missionary Encounter: Missionary Work and Space in the Aftermath of the Anglo-Kuki War

Hoineilhing Sitlhou and Ruth Nengneilhing

 

 

PART VI

Commemoration of the war

 

12. ‘Their Tails are Not Down’: A Hundred Years of Remembering the Anglo-Kuki War

Jangkhomang Guite

Biography

Ngamjahao Kipgen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He was formerly with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. His research interests lie at the intersection of ethnic identity politics, tribes and indigenous people; ethnicity and nationalism, borderland; dams, hydropower and development politics; political sociology and environmental sociology.

Doungul Letkhojam Haokip is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Gauhati University, Assam, India. Formerly he was at the Department of History, Don Bosco College, Maram Manipur, India. He is the author of Thempu Ho Thu (Priestly Charms of the Kuki) (2000) and editor of Documents of the Anglo-Kuki War 1917–1919 (2017).

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