Five Years In Unknown Jungles For God And Empire

Author : Reginald A. Lorrain
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0331707535

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Five Years in Unknown Jungles for God and Empire by Reginald A. Lorrain Pdf

Excerpt from Five Years in Unknown Jungles for God and Empire: Being an Account of the Founding of the Lakher Pioneer Mission, Its Work Amongst (With Manners, Customs, Religious Rites and Ceremonies Of) A Wild Head-Hunting Race of Savage Hillsmen in Further India, Previously Unknown to the Civilized World N the month of July of the present year, at Keswick, I made the acquaintance of Mr. Reginald A. Lorrain, the author of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Reginald Arthur Lorrain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Lakher (Asian people)
ISBN : WISC:89086883675

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Five Years in Unknown Jungles for God and Empire by Reginald Arthur Lorrain Pdf

Author : Indrani Chatterjee,Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253116710

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Slavery and South Asian History by Indrani Chatterjee,Richard M. Eaton Pdf

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLA Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behavior. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves wherever possible. Contributors are Daud Ali, Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson, Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker.

Author : Col Ved Prakash
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India, Northeastern
ISBN : 812690707X

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Encyclopaedia Of North-east India Vol# 5 by Col Ved Prakash Pdf

This 5-Volume, Encyclopaedic Study Of India S North-East Is The Result Of The Author S 11 Years Of Service Extended Over Three Tenures In The Region, Followed By 6 Years Of Library Research After His Retirement. Being The First Of Its Kind, Given Its Contents And Sheer Size, Over 2,500 Pages, It Is A Unique Book.Writing On The North-East Is Not An Easy Exercise, Given Its Diversity (Ethnic, Racial, Religious And Linguistic), Size, History And Geography. If India Is Microcosmic World, The North-East Is Microcosmic India. Of The 5,653 Communities In India, 653 Are Tribal Of Which The 213 Are Indigenous To The North-East. Of The 213, 111 Are Found In Arunachal Pradesh Alone. Illumined By An Equally Amazing Linguistic Diversity, It Is Home To 325 Of The 1,652 Languages Spoken In India. Yet Again, North-East S Total Population Of 3,84,95,089 (2001) Constitutes 2.69 Per Cent Of India S 1,02,70,15,247, While Its Area Of 2,55,088 Sq Km Is 7.75 Per Cent Of India S 32,87,263 Sq Km.

Author : Kyle Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009267366

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The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj by Kyle Jackson Pdf

High in the eastern Himalayan foothills, people had a unique vantage point on the British Empire. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from historical Indigenous perspectives of encounters with empire from the 1890s to the 1920s. Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author through the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, Kyle Jackson sheds new light on the complex and violent processes of how and why diverse populations of highland clans in the Indo-Burmese borderlands came to redefine themselves as Christian Mizos. By using historical Indigenous concepts and logics to approach early twentieth-century imperial encounters, Jackson guides readers into a decolonial history of Northeast India, demonstrating the value of thinking not just about the histories of colonized peoples and concepts but also with them.

Author : Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538130049

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches by Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim Pdf

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.

Author : N. Venuh,Bonita Aleaz
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : British
ISBN : 8170999782

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British Colonization and Restructuring of Naga Polity by N. Venuh,Bonita Aleaz Pdf

Author : Joy L. K. Pachuau,Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107073395

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The Camera as Witness by Joy L. K. Pachuau,Willem van Schendel Pdf

The book challenges the stereotypes about and narrates the daily lives of the Mizos through the use of vernacular photography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004386617

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The Lifework of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden by Anonim Pdf

The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden (eds. Ulbe Bosma and Karin Hofmeester), presents the latest developments in the history of labor and capitalism. As part of Global Labor History, Jan Lucassen, Magaly Rodrígues García, Sidney Chalhoub, and Willem van Schendel discuss new concepts of work and workers, including sex workers, slaves in Brazil, and voluntary communal laborers in North-East India, while Andreas Eckert shows the relevance of area studies. Jürgen Kocka presents a history of capitalism and its critics to date, Pepijn Brandon analyzes Marx’s ideas on the link between free and coerced labor, and Jan Breman looks at the effects of capitalism on rural solidarity through the lens of Tocqueville.

Author : Arshad Alam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000991147

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Religion and Education in India by Arshad Alam Pdf

This book studies the relationship between religion and education in the Indian context. It analyses the creative interface between religion and education as empirical categories and overlapping modes of pedagogical transmission. The volume investigates the ways in which religious identities are shaped through education both at home and at school. It brings together academics and researchers working in different faith traditions like Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism to understand the significance of transmitting religious education and the need to pay closer attention to sites through which religious instruction is being disseminated. Topical and lucid, this book will be an important reading for scholars and researchers of sociology, religious studies, secularism, sociology of education, political sociology, South Asia studies, and education in general.

Author : Margaret L. Pachuau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789356400191

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Negotiating Culture by Margaret L. Pachuau Pdf

In these phenomenal essays, 14 scholars take stock of the effects and response to identity, and culture studies within Mizo literary narratives. The essays address issues that contextualize the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for identity within the Mizo perspective. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and attempt to locate and situate dynamics that are related to orality, history and narrative. Linking the concern with identity to popular literature, individualism, and the need to draw borderlines, the essays identify the most important topics in individual and collective identities in the Mizo. The illuminating essays contextualize developments within Mizo intellectual history, and display aspects that relate to the continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature, ethnography, and ethnic and cultural studies. From orality, colonial, and postcolonial parameters, the book analyzes the ways in which colonial struggles have continued to contribute to postcolonial discourse in the Mizo, by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western cultures.

Author : Chilka Ghosh
Publisher : Doshor Publication
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788195697939

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Through the Gender Lens by Chilka Ghosh Pdf

As its name suggests, this book has viewed certain social practices, beliefs and phenomena from a gender perspective—perspectives of the male, female and the third gender. Since there are essential differences between the ways the people of different sexual categories—those whose orientations match with their sex assigned t\at birth and those whose do not—are socialized and trained, people develop different perspectives of the same social phenomenon and react accordingly. Furthermore, they experience the same things as poverty and natural calamities, for example in different ways. This is not to say that gender identities are not wrought by class/caste and other socially produced differences. The volume explores and questions the different forms that the gender differences, twisted by class/caste and rural/urban divides, take. It exposes the different ways in which gender difference affect our known world of family, health care, political rights, rapidly changing economic environment and entertainment, as also the lesser known world of folk lore and tribal land rights.

Author : Parjanya Sen,Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000904666

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Death and Dying in Northeast India by Parjanya Sen,Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Pdf

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes. In documenting a range of customs and practices pertaining to death, dying and the afterlife among the diverse ethnic communities of Northeast India, the book offers new soteriological, epistemological, sociological and phenomenological perspectives on death. Through an examination of these eschatological practices and their anthropological, theological and cultural moorings, the book aims to reach an understanding of notions of indigeneity with regard to Northeast India. The contributors to this book draw upon a range of subjects— from songs, literary texts, monuments, relics and funerary objects to biographies to folktales to stories of spirit possessions and supernatural encounters. It collates the research of scholars primarily from Northeast India, but also from Eastern India and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of these various belief systems and practices. This book will of interest to those researchers and scholars interested in South Asia in general and Northeast India in particular, and also to those interested in the social anthropology of religion, cultural studies, indigenous studies, folklore studies and Himalayan studies.

Author : Lakshmi Bhatia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136198052

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Education and Society in a Changing Mizoram by Lakshmi Bhatia Pdf

Located in the domain of cultural politics, the book with rich ethnographical data from Mizoram, a lesser known and understood state, brings the community, state and culture to centre-stage, along with family and stratification of the sociological discourse in education. The book argues for a re-look at school education in Mizoram, besides providing critical insights into the North East region as a whole. It also points to the dilemmas of development in that region and suggests possible ways out of the impasse. Marking a significant departure from conventional thinking on education as 'human capital' as reflected in North-East Vision: 2020, the book strongly advocates the need for critical pedagogies based on learning from conflict; inculcating the values of tolerance and compassion as a precursor to peace; reconceptualising `development, not merely as 'economic' but as indicator of national happiness and valuing lives equally besides respect for traditional institutions, thus marking a break from the much resented paternalism that underpins all state interventions in education. One of the first studies of its kind regarding experience and practice of education, the book makes an important contribution to the role that education can play to usher in peace and promote respect for differences.

Author : Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813290266

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Tribal Studies in India by Maguni Charan Behera Pdf

This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on anyone of the core themes of history, archaeology or anthropology, the chapters are suggestive of grand theories of tribal interaction over time and space within a frame of composite understanding of human civilization. With distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the chapters maximize reader insights into the emerging trend of perspective shifts in tribal studies, thus mapping multi-dimensional growth of knowledge in the field and providing a road-map of empirical and theoretical understanding of tribal issues in contemporary academics. This book will be useful for researchers and scholars of anthropology, ethnohistory ethnoarchaeology and of allied subjects like sociology, social work, geography who are interested in tribal studies. Finally, the book can also prove useful to policy makers to better understand the historical context of tribal societies for whom new policies are being created and implemented.