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Democracy in Nagaland : Tribes, Traditions & Tensions Democracy

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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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The Diary of Connie Shakespear: The Naga Hills 1900-1902

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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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Keeper of Stories- Critical Readngs of Easterine Kire’s Novels

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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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School Of Advanced Studies

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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

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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.

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Ruokuonuo Rose Yhome

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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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Jelle J P Wouters

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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,

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Anna Notsu

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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

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Alison Venetia Graham Betts

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I have an outstanding international reputation for innovative archaeological research leadership in difficult areas. I have had a four-decade working life dedicated to opening new research pathways in the prehistory of the Middle East and Central Asia. Over the past two decades, I have been particularly concerned with the influence of Eurasian innovations on the

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Ketoukhrieü

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Ketoukhrieü (Ph.D.) is currently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kohima College, Kohima under Nagaland University, Nagaland.    She has obtained Ph.D in Political Science on the topic, “Society and Politics in the Borderlands: A Case Study of a Konyak Naga Village Located at the Indo-Myanmar Borderland” from Gauhati University Assam in 2015. Her academic

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