| ID | 135461 |
| Title Proper | Resistance to British Power in the Hills of North-East India |
| Other Title Information | some issues |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Thakur, Amrendra Kr |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The legitimation of colonial state’s authority was accompanied by the delegitimation of pre-colonial authority at all levels ranging from the pre-colonial claimants to sovereignty to lower levels such as the ‘native princes’, chiefs and the like.”1 If we look into this part of the world, the North-East India, colonial state intervention was able to “delegitimise” not only the Ahoms of Assam but also other neighbouring hill polities including that of Burma (Myanmar). However, the colonial administrators and writers have presented the colonial intervention in this area, as the saviour of society and the action towards liberation of slaves as the greatest service to the humanity. The earlier generation of historians, which relied greatly upon the colonial sources, subscribed to colonial views in their writings. Consequently, the issue of resistance to the British rule in North-East India did not get the deserved space in the historiography of the region. This paper aims to bridge this gap. The first part of the paper studies the historiographical progress in this regard and the second part discusses the case of resistance of the Singpho and Khampti tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| `In' analytical Note | Dialogue Vol.16, No.1; Jul-Sep.2014: p.117-128 |
| Journal Source | Dialogue 2014-09 16, 1 |
| Standard Number | Politics |