Nationalism in the Vernacular

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-34607-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking at the popular support and participation of ordinary people in the construction of Mizo nationalism, in short, the vernacularisation of nationalism. The book examines this process of vernacularisation at two levels, the first concerns the process of creating a vernacular language to express nationalist ideas and second, the irrepressibility of the oral against state's violent response to the nationalist movement. Drawing from multiple sources, the book through the rich oral narratives, archival materials, including government and media reports shows how Mizos have remained active agents in asserting and claiming their rights to defining ideas of nationalism in their own terms by making it distinctively Mizo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puia, Roluah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and acknowledgement; Glossary of terms; List of acronyms; 1. Introduction; 2. The 'Tribal Question' in India: Problem of Inclusion; 3. The Emergence of Mizo Nationalism: The Formative Phase; 4. MNF and the Vernacularization of Nationalism; 5. Violence, Counter-insurgency and the Transcript of Resistance; 6. Discord, Accord and the Politics of Peace; 7. Conclusion; References.

Über Autor(innen)

Puia, Roluah
Roluahpuia is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR). He was a recipient of the Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian Visiting Fellowship (2018–2019) at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. His research interests broadly concern identity, nationalism, development, and borderland studies. His latest article, 'Unsettled Autonomy: Ethnicity, Tribes and Sub-National Politics in Mizoram, Northeast India' (2021), was published by the journal Nations and Nationalism and was awarded the 2020 Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)–Nations and Nationalism essay prize in memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal.