This work is an in-depth study of how the preliterate hill people of north-eastern India reinvented their ethnic nationalistic identities under British colonial rule and Christian evangelical education. The author witnessed the separate Hill State movements from close quarters. He was a professor of history at Tura Government College, Meghalaya and a correspondent of the Assam Tribune, Guwahati and the now defunct Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta. His connection ...
