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Nationalism in the vernacular: state, tribes, and politics of peace in Northeast India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge University Press 2023 CambridgeDescription: xviii, 195 p.; ill. Includes bibliographies and indexISBN:
  • 9781009346078
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.5409541 P8N2
Summary: Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking at the popular support and participation of ordinary people in the construction of Mizo nationalism, in short, the vernacularisation of nationalism. The book examines this process of vernacularisation at two levels, the first concerns the process of creating a vernacular language to express nationalist ideas and second, the irrepressibility of the oral against state's violent response to the nationalist movement. Drawing from multiple sources, the book through the rich oral narratives, archival materials, including government and media reports shows how Mizos have remained active agents in asserting and claiming their rights to defining ideas of nationalism in their own terms by making it distinctively Mizo. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nationalism-in-the-vernacular/CAEB8DC94512C9119E00E130DFD6DEF9#fndtn-information
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Table of Contents

Chapter-1.Introduction
Chapter-2.The 'Tribal Question' in India: problem of inclusion
Chapter-3.The emergence of Mizo nationalism: the formative phase
Chapter-4.The Mizo National Front and the vernacularization of nationalism
Chapter-5.Violence, counter-insurgency and the transcript of resistance
Chapter-6.Discord, accord and the politics of peace
Chapter-7.Conclusion


Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking at the popular support and participation of ordinary people in the construction of Mizo nationalism, in short, the vernacularisation of nationalism. The book examines this process of vernacularisation at two levels, the first concerns the process of creating a vernacular language to express nationalist ideas and second, the irrepressibility of the oral against state's violent response to the nationalist movement. Drawing from multiple sources, the book through the rich oral narratives, archival materials, including government and media reports shows how Mizos have remained active agents in asserting and claiming their rights to defining ideas of nationalism in their own terms by making it distinctively Mizo.


https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nationalism-in-the-vernacular/CAEB8DC94512C9119E00E130DFD6DEF9#fndtn-information

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