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Jesus Christ: Looking through the Lens of History
History bears witness to great teachers or social reformers who through their ideas and actions have transformed the course of human destiny. As long as they are viewed as human beings, their thoughts...
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The Koch Rajbanshis, one of the oldest native communities of Assam, stand at the crossroadsof history and betrayal. For centuries, their rulers, farmers, soldiers, and saints have shaped thecultural...
View ArticleThe Myth of Early Savarkar and His “Nationalist”1857 Book
This essay was first published in People’s Democracy, March 25, 2007 It has now become a truism of modern secular historiography on India that there was an ‘early’ Savarkar and a ‘late’ Savarkar (much...
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Sanphew Snem Ka Jylla: Ngi Rakhe Їa Kata Ka Jingangnud
Ki don bun kum ma nga kiba la kha bun bnai hadien ba la plie ia ka Jylla Meghalaya ha ka 21 January 1972. Ngam shym kynmaw ban kylli na i mei (bam kwai ha dwar u Blei), kaei kaba i sngew ne pyrkhat...
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Srinagar – Places & Spaces
Traffic had snarled up a little before Rainawari and, as I turned my head up I sighted the flag. A 100-ft high Tricolour that had been hoisted just the day before atop Hari Parbat, the hill that...
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Ka Lyngkhuh Sngi Їap Kaba Sanphew Jong U Babu Wilson Reade
U Babu Wilson Reade u la khlad ha ka 9 tarik September 1971 bad mynta ka sngi ka dei ka lyngkhuh sngi їap kaba sanphew (50) jong une u riewkhraw uba la noh synῆiang shikatdei ha ki jylli jong ka...
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Tang Ban Їatip – U Briew Uba Ki Khot U Dr Elias
Kane ka dei ka jingpynkylla khasi ia ka jingthoh, A Man Called Dr Elias, ba la thoh da I Bah Maurice G. Lyngdoh kaba la mih ha ka snem 1996. I nongthoh i la ai jingbit ban pynkylla ktien bad ban...
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How Hindi(U)wallahs Get Manipur Wrong
In the piece “How Hindi helped to build a bridge to Manipur language and culture” published on 12th July in The Hindu, the author of the said article/Op Ed piece Kuldeep Kumar, attempts to make a case...
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A British Army Doctor Remembers U Kiang Nangbah’s Rebellion in Khasi-Jaintia...
RAIOT is pleased to publish extracts from Memories of Seven Campaigns : a record of thirty-five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan by James Howard...
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[LONGREAD] Where Lie the Borders of Khasi, Jaintia & Garo Hills?
Colonial sovereignty travelled into the frontier hills of the north east frontier through law. Frontier law or its absence and frontier space or its elusiveness tell us a different story about the...
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Letters between a Lepcha Geographer and a Naga Anthropologist
Dadiji (Florence Chandramukhi Gergan) and Memeley (Sonam Skybladen Gergan) Elder brother (Matthias Phurba Sonam Gergan), Amaley (Longthormit Gergan), me and Abaley (Dr. Joseph Thsetan Gergan) Mhalo...
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On the Indian Knowledge Systems Calendar from WhatsApp Department of IIT...
Tweet Namit Arora is the author of Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization (Penguin Random House India, 2021). My alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur, has created a...
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Demystifying Black Magic: Mayong Village Museum and Research Centre, Assam
Tweet All photographs by the author The construction of popular narratives about a place is sometimes driven by an overuse of popular tropes, which delegitimises and silences the local community’s own...
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[Photo/Essay] Who Remembers the Temple Destructions in Narmada Valley?
Tweet On 5th August 2020 the Bhartiya Janta Party lived up to its promise of ‘Mandir Vahin Banega’ as India’s Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of a temple at the place of a historical mosque...
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How Should We Remember Thomas Jones?
Tweet Welsh missionaries and British imperialism : THE EMPIRE OF CLOUDS IN NORTH-EAST INDIA by Australian historian, Andrew May is one of the few histories of the Khasi-Jaintia hills which escapes...
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How Much Love Do Migrant Workers Have For Their Original Homes?
Tweet There is a kind of myth making going on in the media that migrant workers are leaving cities for their love of home. For example, listening to the ‘echo of migrant footfalls’, Sanjoy Hazarika...
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The Man Who Wove Nightmares Into History
Tweet This essay is a partially expanded, edited and reconstructed version of the translators’ postscript to the Japanese edition of Nagaland and India – The Blood and the Tears (2011). “This...
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Nationalising the Brahmaputra
Tweet The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do we know of this river’s rich past? The Unquiet...
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Many Histories of Kuki Rebellion (1917-1919)
Tweet Recently, I published an essay on Kuki Rebellion of 1917-1919, titled “To bridge the divide in Manipur, the effects of a long cycle of violence should be accepted” about how the rebellion...
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Debates, Divisions, and Deaths Within the Naga Uprising (1944-1963)
Tweet Political conflicts have lifecycles: like persons they go through different stages with each associating with particular behaviours, experiences, emotions and viewpoints. While each stage...
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