Against state, against history : freedom, resistance, and statelessness in Upland Northeast India / Jangkhomang Guite.

By:

Guite, Jangkhomang [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: lviii, 301 pages : maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199489411 (hardbound)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

305.8009541 GUI 23 017369

Contents:

List of Tables and Figures Preface List of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Enormous Dead Level: Daunting Geography, Rippling States2. The Great Escape: Peopling the Blue Hills3. Divided We Stand: Space, Settlement and Population Distribution Pattern4. Pathways, Citadels and the Sentinels of the Hills5. A Pleasurable Toil: Food, Freedom and Livelihood6. Chiefs, Commoners and the Babel of Tongues7. Between the Worlds Upside Down: Summoning Folktales 8. Renouncer, Restorer and Defender: Daughters of the Hills9. Symbiotic Hill-Valley Relationship: Transactions of Space, Manpower and ResourcesConclusion: Disowning State, Becoming EgalitarianBibliographyIndexAbout the author

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	305.8009541 GUI 017369 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		017369

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