1st Edition

Unconventional Warfare Small Wars and Insurgencies in the India-Myanmar Borderland (1914–1945)

By Pum Khan Pau Copyright 2025
202 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

202 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

202 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

The book probes the lesser-known history of the Great Wars in the India-Myanmar borderland from the perspective of the indigenous people of the area. It critically studies how the indigenous hill people saw the Wars as an opportunity to defend their land and free themselves from the bondage of colonial rule. The volume provides an in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of unconventional warfare... Read more

Introduction 1. Understanding Warfare in Hill Society 2. ‘Petty Warfare’ on a Colonial Frontier 3. War Within a War: Labour Corps and Local Response 4. Divided Loyalties? Propaganda and Indigenous Response 5. Behind the Enemy Line: Local Levies and Guerrilla Warfare 6. Caught Between Empires: The Politics of Zo Participation 7. Transborder Road: Logistics and Local Participation on the Tedim Road

Biography

Pum Khan Pau, Professor, Department of History & Archaeology, Nagaland University, Kohima. He was Raman Post-Doctoral Fellow at Arizona State University, USA (2014-15). His research interests include frontier and borderlands studies, history of North-East India under colonial rule, the two World Wars in the Indo-Burma borderland etc. Pau has published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Asian Ethnicity, Journal of Burma Studies, Indian Historical Review, Mission Studies, Strategic Analysis etc. He is the author of Indo-Burma frontier and the making of the Chin Hills: Empire and Resistance (London, 2020).