Early States in North East India
by David R Syiemlieh, JB Bhattacharjee
ISBN: 9789351301356
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Imprint : Regency Publications
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 9495.00
Biblio : xiv+254p., 23 cm
Author Profile
J.B. Bhattacharjee, retired Professor of History, North East Hill University, Shillong, and founder Vice-Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar, distinguished himself by his pioneering research in various branches of history and allied disciplines in Social Sciences. Author of ten books and editor of eighteen collections, he contributed in two hundred & fifty research papers in regional, national and international journals, proceeding and collections. Founder general Secretary of the North East India History Association (NEIHA), founder of the Institute of Northeast India Studies in Kolkata in his latest initiative for promotion of studies and research on India’s Northeast.<br/> <BR> David R Syiemlieh took early retirement from the Northeast Hill University where, he was Professor in Department of History to join as member, Union Public Service Commission. Earlier he was Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, NEHU. A distinguished historical with specialization in the History of Northeast India, he presided over 31st session of the North-East India history Association, TURA, 2010, and the Modern India Section of 78th Indian History Congress, Mumbai 2012.
About The Book
The origins and development of the early states and politics (technically termed by some scholars in social sciences as ‘state formations’) in pre-colonial Northeast India is considered a fascinating area for studies and research not only for the multiplicity of the autonomous socio-political entities and the ethnic and cultural diversity of the region but also for the existence of various typologies of polities. Besides the pristine (indigenously emerging from ethnic social base) and secondary (established by conquest) states that had developed into monarchies of kingdoms, there were a large number of other formations which were at various levels and development and some among which could have developed into early stated had the process and not been arrested by the colonial interventions in the nineteenth century. Early state in North-East India emerges form the papers presented in a national seminar organized by the Department of History, North East Hill University, Shillong, for an inter disciplinary study of the subject.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements v <BR> Preface vii <BR> The Contributors xiii <BR> 1. Studies in State Formations in North East India 1 <BR> 2. Pan-Indian Culture Continuum and Early States in North East India 12 <BR> 3. State Formation in the Peripheral Areas: A Study of the Chutiya Kingdom of the Brahmaputra Valley 24 <BR> 4. The Emergence of the Koch State in the 16th Century 50 <BR> 5. ‘Early State’ Formation in the Kapili Valley of Assam 62 <BR> 6. Secondary State Formation in Medieval North East India: Ahom State Formation (1228-1641) 81 <BR> 7. Some Aspects of Military Technology in the Ahom State 91 <BR> 8. The Matak Formation 107 <BR> 9. History in Orality: Explanation of State Formation in Khasi-Jaintia Folk Narratives 124 <BR> 10. The Fission and Fusion Process in the Khasi Political System 137 <BR> 11. Crisis of Sustenance and Decline of the Ahom State in Eighteenth Century Assam 152 <BR> 12. State Formation Processes in Tripura 178 <BR> 13. Sat Rajas of Arunachal Pradesh: A Study 190 <BR> 14. State Formation Processes among the Mizos in the Pre-colonial Times 212 <BR> 15. Pre-Colonial Mizo Society: A Transit Between Tribes and States 242
