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167242
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The aim of this paper is to examine the story of the American Baptists and how their mission activities in the Naga Hills District (1871–1955) have impacted upon present day politics in the Indian state of Nagaland. Baptists make up nearly 95% of the current Naga population in Nagaland. The paper will investigate the relationship between the Baptist mission’s philosophy on education, Christian conversion and the subsequent rise of a sense of ‘national community’ amongst the Nagas. Although the primary motivation for the American missionaries was to convert, the British administrators also thought that introducing Christianity would prevent influence on these tribes from Hindu and Muslim groups. Thus began Christianity’s part in a developing framework for resistance in this region, raising significant questions with regard to Christianity’s persistence as a form of political articulation in contemporary Nagaland. This political articulation, I suggest, is related to a greater sense of agency brought about by Christianity and Missionary activities in the fields of education and print. The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS) was at the forefront of these changes.
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143205
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Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1965.
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xxii, 636p.hbk
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:1,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 000390 | 025.954042/KUM 000390 | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | |
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189550
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Imposed geography in the form of cartographic mapping and boundary lines is part of the state-making and production of ‘legible’ subjects throughout the world. As a result of such impositions, there have been constant claims and contestations of space, nation and citizenship among the borderland communities. Such claims and contestations have sustained and reinforced connections and mobility of the borderland communities across the border. Such cross-border connections and mobility are found very commonly even among the borderland communities of Northeast India. With huge borderlands, Northeast India has diverse borderland communities that maintain close ethnic ties across artificial and imposed boundaries. Based on fieldwork conducted both in India and Myanmar, the present article centres on the Konyak Nagas and Khiamniungan Nagas living on both sides of the Indo-Myanmar boundary and looks at how these borderland communities constantly negotiate with the imposed border and sustain their relationship across the border. The article delves into the question of how such imposed geography has resulted in the contestation of space, nation and citizenship among the borderland communities which points toward new layers of complicacy defying the very rationale of a hard border.
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101492
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2010.
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Does socio-political circumstance have an impact on religion, religious conversion or religious beliefs? Assuming it does, how does such circumstance shape the theology and beliefs of a people who exist amid a turbulent socio-political situation? In this paper I will analyze the impact of socio-political turbulence on Nagas and assert that among the Nagas there is a correlation between the height of political violence and the rapid conversion to Christianity. The long history of colonial violence and suppression coupled with the undermining of Naga cultural values and practices by the process of proselytization created an atmosphere conducive for conversion to Christianity and shaped the Nagas' theological choices.
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165237
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This article is a preliminary attempt to understand the dynamics of how Patanjali and Baba Ramdev represent ‘Hindu nationalism’, or Hindutva (Hinduness) in Nagaland, India. One can read Baba Ramdev's foray into the region through the promotion of yoga, Ayurveda, and national health, as a form of ‘neo-Hindutva’ that is increasingly diffuse and moves away from a more militant pathway of established Hindutva designs. If one considers the work of Patanjali in Nagaland as an attempt to homogenise and unify a set of practices surrounding food and health practices, then, one can read this as an attempt to assert a singular somatic imagination, increasingly influenced by Hindutva ideas about the body, ‘the health of the nation’, and the promotion of swadeshi (indigenous goods) as patriotic duty. This article highlights the way Ramdev and Patanjali's business empire is trying to move beyond the ‘cow belt’ of north India, comprising mainly of ‘Hindu-Hindi’ into regions that are more diverse linguistically and historically, and culturally viewed as ‘un-Indian’.
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040265
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New Delhi, Deep & Deep Publications, 1987.
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199p.Hbk
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8170000207
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| 028662 | 954.165/SIN 028662 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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140098
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The current engagement of the government of India with various insurgent groups in Manipur’s hill areas makes it imperative to revisit certain problems related to local ethnicity construction and, more importantly, to specifically address burning issues of overlapping territorial demands. The article argues that such overlapping territorial claims, which have their roots in colonial processes of ethnicisation, need to be tackled as a matter of urgency. Such competing claims arose only after colonially constructed categories of local people who shared local living spaces began to claim exclusive ownership of the entire territory of certain administrative units. Challenging the presence of other groups by settlerising these respective ‘others’ has resulted in recent attempts at ethnic cleansing, which violates basic principles of India’s ‘unity in diversity’. Since local land ownership was traditionally neither attached to a tribe or ethnic group, but rather to the entire village community, a return to that pattern seems advisable. Thus, it is argued, shifting from a ‘tribe–district’ approach to ‘village community/village land’ approaches in dealing with the impasse of overlapping territorial claims offers scope for a sustainable reconciliation.
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030782
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New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House, 1974.
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xxii, 440p.Hbk
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| 013514 | 954.165/YON 013514 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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