Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India

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Roluah Puia (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Nationalism in the Vernacular

State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India

Roluah Puia (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

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Cambridge University Press
24 August 2023

Social & cultural anthropology; Nationalism; Regional government; Political control & freedoms; Political activism

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.

By: Roluah Puia (Harvard University Massachusetts)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781009346078
ISBN 10: 1009346075
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 24 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface and acknowledgement; Glossary of terms; List of acronyms; 1. Introduction; 2. The 'Tribal Question' in India: Problem of Inclusion; 3. The Emergence of Mizo Nationalism: The Formative Phase; 4. MNF and the Vernacularization of Nationalism; 5. Violence, Counter-insurgency and the Transcript of Resistance; 6. Discord, Accord and the Politics of Peace; 7. Conclusion; References.

Roluahpuia is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR). He was a recipient of the Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian Visiting Fellowship (2018–2019) at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. His research interests broadly concern identity, nationalism, development, and borderland studies. His latest article, 'Unsettled Autonomy: Ethnicity, Tribes and Sub-National Politics in Mizoram, Northeast India' (2021), was published by the journal Nations and Nationalism and was awarded the 2020 Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)–Nations and Nationalism essay prize in memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal.

Reviews for Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India

'… an important intervention in the studies of nations and nationalism, tribal studies, Northeast India studies, border studies, peace and conflict studies and beyond.' Somingam PS, LSE Review of Books