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The book under review examines the exclusion of Mizo in the national discourse of ‘diversity’ not only perpetuates their marginalization but also the creation of their identity in their own unique ways through vernacular Christianity and practices relating to death in a veng or locality.

In her survey of the common perception of the North East in Delhi, Joy Pachuau points out the prevailing animosity between the original residents and North East tenants, many defining them as ‘odd community’, neither Indians nor foreigners, ‘borderline community’ and predominantly ‘tribal’ that do not fit in within the Indian social structure.