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Cultural Forms and Practices in Northeast India

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Editors:
  1. Kailash C. Baral

    1. Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies, EFL University, Hyderabad, India

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  • Serves as a bridge between vanishing cultural forms and their commodification
  • Spans aspects of cultural forms and practices in Northeast India
  • The first volume in the English language on Northeast India’s cultural evolution

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kailash C. Baral
    Pages 1-12

  3. Plural Embodiments: The Performative World of Sankari Vaishnavism in Assam

    • Dhurjjati Sarma
    Pages 13-26

  4. Sattriya Tradition of Assam: Rituality, Memory and Transmission

    • Anwesa Mahanta
    Pages 27-38

  5. Ojapali: The Sacred and the Secular in Assamese Folk Performance Culture

    • Dhira Bhowmick
    Pages 39-55

  6. From Sacred to Popular: Demystifying Ojha-Nach of Barak Valley

    • Sib Sankar Majumder
    Pages 57-67

  7. Culture and Commodification: Bihu from Meadows to the Rostrum

    • Monalisa Borgohain
    Pages 69-83

  8. Kushan Gaan: Retelling of the Ramayana

    • Preetinicha Barman
    Pages 85-97

  9. Kherai Ritual and Cultural Performance: Worldviews of the Bodos

    • Rustam Brahma, Dwijen Sharma
    Pages 99-109

  10. The Maibi Tradition and Lai Haraoba

    • Ahanthem Homen Singh, Dhurjjati Sarma
    Pages 111-119

  11. Shamanism Among the Adis

    • Karyir Riba
    Pages 121-129

  12. Religion as Culture: Analysing the Mizo Discourse

    • Margaret L. Pachuau
    Pages 131-139

  13. No Song and No Dance: Invention of Tradition and Lushai Resistance to Cultural Colonialism: 1904–1911

    • Sajal Nag
    Pages 141-162

  14. Jagoi Raas, the Manipuri Raas Lila

    • Tayenjam Bijoykumar Singh
    Pages 163-176

  15. When (and Where) Ritual is not Romance: Liminality, Gender and Storytelling Among the Khasis

    • Jobeth Ann Warjri
    Pages 177-185

  16. Cultural Recovery and Reformation: Tourism and the Hornbill Festival at Kisama

    • Theyiesinuo Keditsu
    Pages 187-198

  17. Mizo Tlawmngaihna: Then and Now

    • Lalthansangi Ralte
    Pages 199-214

  18. Dynamics of Popular Culture: Jatra in Assam

    • Namrata Pathak
    Pages 215-227

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 229-233
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About this book

The present book examines cultural diversities of Northeast India. The sixteen essays included in the volume cover various aspects of cultural forms and their practices among the communities of Northeast. The present volume is expected to serve as a bridge between vanishing cultural forms and their commodification, on the one hand, and their cultural ritual origins, evolution and significance in identity formation, on the other. The book analyses continuity of cultural forms, their representations and often their reinventions under globalisation. Further, the book underlines historical forces such as colonialism and religious conversion that have transformed communities and their cultural practices. Yet some of the pre-colonial, ritual-performative traditions hold on. Through insightful analyses, this book offers an informed view of the region’s historical, ethnic and cultural practices. It is expected that the volume will be useful for scholars and students interested in Northeast studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies, EFL University, Hyderabad, India

    Kailash C. Baral

About the editor

Kailash C Baral, presently Vice Chairman of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), under the Ministry of Culture, GOI, was a former Professor of English and India Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, where he also held the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor. He has authored and edited ten books so far; his latest work (2nd edition), published by Routledge, UK, is Theory After Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis. He has more than 50 international and national publications in journals and about 30 book chapters. He was awarded the Narindra Pradhan Award by the former American Studies Research Centre at Hyderabad. Besides, he is also a recipient of the British Council Travel Fellowship. His research interests include Critical theory, India Studies and North East Studies.

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