This thought-provoking work examines ethno history, an underexplored field of study that lies at the intersection of interpretation, reinterpretation, intellectual history, literature and gender studies. A pioneering piece of ethnohistory, uses a variety of interdisciplinary means to reconstruct the oral history of an important tribe in North East India, i.e. NYISHI. It traces the impact of misnomer nomenclature labelled on the tribe throughout century and ...