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War and Nationalism in South Asia: The Indian State and the Nagas

War and Nationalism in South Asia: The Indian State and the Nagas

Franke, Marcus

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Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0415502160
ISBN13: 9780415502160
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 7 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial.

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and comparative and theoretical literature, Marcus Franke demonstrates that agency and identity-formation are an on-going process that neither started nor ended with colonialism. Although the interaction of the local population with colonialism produced a Naga national élite, it was the emergence of the Indian political class, with access to superior means of nation and state-building, that was able to undertake the modern Indo-Naga war. This war firmly made the Nagas into a 'nation' and that set them onto the road to independence.

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