Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland

Description: Against State, Against History by Jangkhomang Guite Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Against State, Against History is a radical reevaluation of the dominant civilizational narratives on the hill tribe. It attempts to recast their history as state evading population in the hills who reenact their counter cultural collective to prevent state control and the emergence of domination relations in the hills. It explores the reenactment of their space, society, culture and economy in the hills and argues that promoting personal freedom in anegalitarian setting was the core concern of their cultural collective. Publisher Description Living in the shadow of state is not a dark, static and silent world. It was the world in full radiance, involving multiple process of reenactment to life, lifeways and relationship. If state and history demonized the hill people as the pest and nuisance to civilization, and the hill practices as the relics of the primitive, the hillmens narratives celebrated them as their core cultural collective. Against State, Against History is a radicalreevaluation of the dominant civilizational narratives on the tribe and attempts to recast their history in the light of recent historiography that presents the hillmen as state evading population.Bringing together both conventional and oral narratives, and from the counter-perspectives of the margin, the book explores the conditions in which section of valley population escaped to the hills, their migration history, how they reenact their space, society, culture and economy in the hills. Their physical dispersion in the highland terrain, choosing an independent village polity, defended by trained warriors, fortressed at the top of hills, connected by repulsivepathways, following jhum economy, and adopting a pliable social, cultural, ethnic and gender formations, are their counter cultural collective at the margins of state. They were reenacted to prevent statecontrol and the emergence of domination relations in the hills. This process is understood as unstate involving the process of disowning state and becoming an egalitarian society where freedom of individuals was located at the core of their cultural collective. Author Biography Jangkhomang Guite teaches modern Indian history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was previously at the Department of History, Assam University, Silchar. His research explores the history of the long neglected borderland of India and Myanmar, commonly known as the Northeast India. He is interested particularly in tribal studies, economic, social and cultural history, memory studies, war and military history. He haspublished some original articles related to his area of research in different refereed journals. His works includes colonial and postcolonial period of Indo-Myanmar borderland. These include themesrelated to colonial frontier policy, tribal raids, ethnicity, politics of remembering, First and Second World War in Northeast, etc. He is presently working on British colonial rule in Northeast, monuments and memory in postcolonial Northeast, social history of jhum cultivation, and response of Northeast Indians to First World War. Details ISBN 0199489416 ISBN-13 9780199489411 Title Against State, Against History Author Jangkhomang Guite Format Hardcover Year 2019 Pages 364 Publisher OUP India GE_Item_ID:134693860; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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