Synopsis : This book explores the form and character of political and social life in Nagaland. Firmly grounded in the historical experiences and ethnographic specifics of Naga society, its eleven essays variously discuss the origins, evolution and convolutions of the Naga Movement for self-determination, the ways Naga villagers apply their agency and imagination to appropriate and […]
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Synopsis : The title of this book; ‘Nagas in the 21st Century’, is both an adaptation and a (modest) self-proclaimed sequel to Verrier Elwin’s (1969) iconic Nagas in the Nineteenth Century. In this anthology, Elwin introduces and brings together a collection of administrative reports, tour diaries, and ethnographic descriptions on Naga tribes, all written in the
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Synopsis : This edited volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the historical, cultural, and traditional inferences, inner-logic, and intricacies of democratic politics and elections in Nagaland. It goes beyond ‘institutional analyses’ of democratic structures and governance by looking at the troubled historical context in which modern democracy was introduced, how Nagas themselves view democracy, the reasoning they
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Synopsis : Connie Shakespeare’s ‘Diary’ is a lively and entertaining account of her adventures in the Naga Hills, an area far removed from the familiar Anglicized spaces of colonial India. The juxtaposition of written narrative and amateur photographs vividly brings her unusual experiences to life and highlights the curious position of women travelers in the twentieth century. While the local people and places are the
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Synopsis : Highlander Books is delighted to announce the publication of Keeper of Stories, a selection of critical essays on the novels of Easterine Kire. Edited by K.B. Veio Pou, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Delhi, the volume includes contributions from 15 distinguished writers with an interest in Northeast India who
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The Academic Heart of the Highland Institute Founded in 2017, the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) is the Highland Institute’s dedicated academic wing. It was created to nurture emerging scholarship, train early-career researchers, and foster interdisciplinary knowledge production within the Himalayan region and beyond. SAS serves as the institutional home for all academic programmes, training
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Meera Baindur is an environmental philosopher, educator, and researcher at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru Campus. Her work spans different aspects of Environmental Humanities, including nature and environment in Indian philosophical and cultural traditions, cultural geography, and eco-pedagogies.
Currently on a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Scholarship at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ruokuonuo Rose obtained her Ph.D in Archaeology from the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune Email- rose@highlandinstitute.org
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I am a social anthropologist and carried out long-term ethnographic and historical research among the upland and tribal Nagas in India’s generally lesser known Northeastern Region, writing about insurgency, violence, vernacular politics, capitalism, resource-extraction, and social history. My main research area and focus today are environmental humanities, climate change, water, and human-animal-plant entanglements in Bhutan,
Anna Notsu holds an MSc in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University, where she currently works as a junior lecturer. Her research interests involve political ecology, agricultural practices, environmental degradation, and more-than-human healing. At present, she is looking to start her doctoral research on customary land usages and emergent forms of regenerative practices – relatives to
