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100			_aGuite, Jangkhomang _9673838
245			_aAgainst state, against history : _bFreedom, resistance and statelessness in upland Northeast India
260			_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2019.
300			_alviii, 301p.
520			_aLiving in the shadow of state is not a dark, static and silent world. It was the world in full radiance, involving multiple process of reenactment to life, lifeways and relationship. If state and history demonized the hill people as the 'pest' and 'nuisance' to civilization, and the hill practices as the 'relics' of the 'primitive', the hillmen's narratives celebrated them as their core cultural collective. Against State, Against History is a radical reevaluation of the dominant civilizational narratives on the 'tribe' and attempts to recast their history in the light of recent historiography that presents the hillmen as state evading population. Bringing together both conventional and oral narratives, and from the counter-perspectives of the margin, the book explores the conditions in which section of valley population escaped to the hills, their migration history, how they reenact their space, society, culture and economy in the hills. Their physical dispersion in the highland terrain, choosing an independent village polity, defended by trained warriors, fortressed at the top of hills, connected by repulsive pathways, following jhum economy, and adopting a pliable social, cultural, ethnic and gender formations, are their counter cultural collective at the margins of state. They were reenacted to prevent state control and the emergence of domination relations in the hills. This process is understood as unstate involving the process of disowning state and becoming an egalitarian society where freedom of individuals was located at the core of their cultural collective.
650			_aNortheastern -- Scheduled tribes -- History _9811192
650			_aNortheastern -- Scheduled tribes -- History -- Politics and government _9811193
650			_aMountain people -- History -- India, Northeastern _9811194
650			_aSocial History
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