This book the Jaintias: Studies in Society and Change has been the outcome of a long and exhaustive research that was carried out since 1992. Since written information on the people in study is so limited, a lot of stress is being laid on interviews and field study. The oral traditions and folklores of the people have been used in the best possible way to derive information. The book also makes an attempt to throw more light on the migration, economy, political institutions, religion, marriage, inheritance and others that the people have tried to preserve.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shobhan N. Lamare
Dr. S.N. Lamare was born at Jawai, in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya. He did his early schooling in Jowai and later graduated from St. Edmund’s College, Shillong with honours in History. He finished his M.A. in History from the North Eastern Hill University. He was awarded the M.Phil degree in 1995 from the same university for this research on The Cultural Transition of the Pnars from the Middle of the 19th Century. The North Eastern Hill University awarded him the Ph.D. in 2000 for his thesis The Jaintia Resistance: 1860-1683. He has published a number of articles on Jaintia history in newspapers and in the Proceedings of the North East India History Association of which he is a life member. His book Resistance Movement in North East India: the Jaintias of Meghalaya 1860-1863 was published in 2001. Collections of his poems called Reflections have been published in 2002. Dr. S.N. Lamare is presently working as a lecturer of history in St. Edmund’s college Shillong, Meghalaya.
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