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Title: Deconstructing Colonial Ethnography: An Analysis of Missionary Writings in North East India
Authour: Hoineilhing Sitlhou
Category: Sociology
Language: English
ISBN:978-81-933068-6-4
Edition: 1
Year: 2017
About the Book:
The book is an effort to
understand the transnational encounter between two different societies, which
was made possible by the experiences of British colonialism in India,
particularly the North Eastern Part of India. It is a comprehensive history of
the North East in relationship to the twin contexts of colonialism and
indigenous interactions. It
tries to understand the origin and reason for the flourishing of Christianity
in these regions within the context of a dominant Hindu society of the Indian Nation-State.
The question of India is
then fraught with how differential histories play a part in our understanding
of religion, territory, borders, language and dialect. In trying to
understand Christianity as introduced by the Colonial Missionaries, the book
compares it to the case of South
India, where mission history is represented by the Church Missionary Society. The
focus is on the four North Eastern states of India where the degree of
proselytisation was most effective namely, the states of Meghalaya, Mizoram,
Nagaland and Manipur and concentrates on the experiences of the American Baptist and the Welsh
Presbyterians.
