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 with these newspapers gave him an opportunity to be friend of many prominent hill leaders and gain an insight of their movements. This book is an explanation of his understanding of Hill State movements which ended in the establishment of Meghalaya in 1971.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amalendu Kishore Chakraborty
The author Amalendu K. Chakraborty obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees respectively from the Calcutta and Jadavpur universities and his Ph.D., from the University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Since receiving Ph.D., he taught world history at the universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin and also at other colleges among them were Macalaster College and the college of St. Catherine. He received various fellowships. Amongst them were Senior Fellowship of the American Institute of Indian Studies and American Institute of Bangladesh Studies. At present, he is a professor of history at Concordia College at Moorhead, Minnesota, USA and also working on Madrasa education of Bengali Muslims under British rule.
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