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Wilful Statelessness in Upland North East India

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Book Name: AGAINST STATE, AGAINST HISTORY: FREEDOM, RESISTANCE, AND STATELESSNESS IN UPLAND NORTHEAST INDIA
Book Name: AGAINST STATE, AGAINST HISTORY: FREEDOM, RESISTANCE, AND STATELESSNESS IN UPLAND NORTHEAST INDIA
Book Year: 2019
Book Price: 1095.00
Reviewer name: Khaikholen Haokip
Volume No: 44
Publisher Name: Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Book Pages: 301

Colonial stereotypical portrayal of the myriad hill-tribes of India’s North East as, inter alia, demoniacal, relics of the past and uncivilized—abstract principles intended to rationalize the imperial project—has undergirded much of the dominant understandings about the region. Even decolonization has not yet emancipated the dominant narrative about the region from colonial discourse. Given the conventional bias that historical narrative has for ‘mainstream’ society over people from the margins, the life ways and perspectives of the latter hardly gain countenance as ‘historical facts’ and are, thereby, relegated to peripheral historical agents. Latterly, emerging scholarship from the upland North East—drawing from the tradition of subaltern historiography—has striven to reverse this epistemic focal bias. The book under review is one such compelling contribution to this endeavour: to construct the history of the hill-tribes of the upland North East, covering from ‘time immemorial’ down to the advent of colonial rule, by decentering it from history that emanated from ‘state centres’ (p. xix).

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