From Colonial To Contemporary Times
Manjeet Baruah
THE CAMERA AS WITNESS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MIZORAM, NORTHEAST INDIA by Joy L.K. Pachuau Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2015, 502 pp., 992
May 2015, volume 39, No 5

As a narrative which relies on photo¬graphs to communicate, The Camera as Witness is a remarkable book of his¬tory. Possibly one of the first academic his¬tory writings of its kind on North East In¬dia, it traces the history of Mizoram from the colonial to the contemporary times.

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