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Study on Nutrition Determinants and Strategies in the North-East of India
Through the agency of Oxford Policy Management, researchers from The Highland Institute were engaged as consultants in a World Bank-funded study on primary determinants of health and nutrition status and outcomes in Nagaland. The target groups for the project were…
Changing the story
The Changing the Story (CTS) is an international, multi-disciplinary project which supports the building of inclusive civil societies with, and for, young people in post-conflict settings. The project is funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Global…
Mixed methods study on surgical care in rural areas of North-Eastern India
Conceived by the Global Health Research Group (GHRG), funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), UK, and led by the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds, UK, this project aimed to examine…
Democracy in Nagaland : Tribes, Traditions & Tensions Democracy
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…
Naga as a society against voting
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…
Hutton Lectures 2018
We warmly invite scholars conducting research in the eastern Himalayan region to submit papers for our Sixth Annual Hutton Lectures symposium, to be held on the 3rd and 4th of December at the Highland Institute, Nagaland. The papers should relate…
Nagas in the 21st Century
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…
Preserving the Karbi Kecharhe Alun Funeral Epic in Assam
The aim of this project is to record and transcribe five full versions of the Kecharhe Alun funeral epic in Karbi Anglong, Assam. Performed from memory, the Kecharhe Alun is the most significant, and longest (several days) single piece of…