David R. Syiemlieh
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The seventeen essays in this collection relate to the Khasi-Jaintias of Meghalaya in North East India and cover a time span from their pre-colonial past, through the colonial era and into more contemporary times. All but one of the essays in this collection were researched and published during the author’s years at NEHU. All the essays have been looked at afresh and updated. The essays do not purport to be a complete modern history of the tribe-there are ...
This volume compiles four secret British plans conceived and discussed at the highest levels of administration for setting up a Crown Colony, comprising the hill areas of the North East India and the tribal areas of Burma, in the years before and shortly after Independence. Giving the geographical, administrative and colonial contexts of the four British plans, it traces the connection between the four plans of Sir Robert N. Reid, Governor of Assam, 1937-1942; ...
In tribal society, religion, beliefs and practices govern all aspects of life. It is the outcome of feelings; the feeling of insecurity and ideas as to its causes induce an individual to act for its remedy and derived satisfaction out of helplessness. It grew out of man’s reflective thinking and recognition that there exists something greater than his self and thus strived to develop procedures to achieve a satisfactory relationship with it. These ...
This book is the third volume of selection of speeches delivered by Shri M.M. Jacob, Governor of Meghalaya between 2001 and 2005. In his Introduction the Governor gives his views of North East India and some candid opinion on Meghalaya. The thirty-four speeches have been divided into four broad themes relating to education; national integration and communal harmony; economy of North East India and Governance. The speeches show the familiarity of Shri M.M. Jacob ...
This book is made up of a collection of papers presented in a Seminar organized by the ICSSR North Eastern Regional Centre at Shillong. All the contributors focused on a singly theme that India’s North East needs development. The twenty-three papers in this volume have been grouped in themes covering polity, society, economy, tourism, education and health. All the authors of the articles are persons who either live in the region or have had long academic ...
This is the third volume in the three Volume series on society and economy in North-East India. The first volume covered the pre-colonial period up to the 13 century and the second volume brought the studies to the18 century. This third volume focuses on the social and economic developments in North-East India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions to this volume have covered a wide range of subjects in the context of society and economy in ...