In the last decade of the nineteenth century the Lushai Hills on India's Eastern Periphery, now the state of Mizoram, was annexed by the British and incorporated into their Indian Empire. This book tells the story of how this was done, bringing into focus the hitherto neglected theme of resistance to the imposition of alien rule. The Lushais, or more accurately the Mizos, like so many other hill people in North East India, took up arms and fought the British for ...
