Description
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.
Examines how oral culture provided a platform to people in shaping the discourse of Mizo nationalism.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
'... an important intervention in the studies of nations and nationalism, tribal studies, Northeast India studies, border studies, peace and conflict studies and beyond.' Somingam PS, LSE Review of Books
Book Information
ISBN 9781009346078
Author Roluah Puia
Format Hardback
Page Count 260
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 400g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 17mm
Examines how oral culture provided a platform to people in shaping the discourse of Mizo nationalism.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
'... an important intervention in the studies of nations and nationalism, tribal studies, Northeast India studies, border studies, peace and conflict studies and beyond.' Somingam PS, LSE Review of Books
Book Information
ISBN 9781009346078
Author Roluah Puia
Format Hardback
Page Count 260
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 400g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 17mm
