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This book studies the Gaidinliu uprising led by Rani Gaidinliu, a spiritual and political leader from Northeast India.

Yet, this aspect has remained outside the scope of history books. Whatever reading material is available is pro-Christian, mainly because they are either sponsored by the church authorities or written by ecclesiastical scholars.

It is one of those collections where studies of all three practices of Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occult are combined in one single book.

This book is an effort to provide an informed historical and cultural appreciation of the role and contribution of missionary endeavors in British India.

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its `splendid isolation¿ and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did not have a pre-colonial past. This book is an attempt to decenter and demolish the said perceptions.

This book is one of the rare collections where black magic, occult practices and witchcraft are recorded and academically analyzed.

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia. It studies the emergence of nationalism in modern states as a powerful, omnipotent, and omnipresent form of political identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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North East India is called nature¿s gift to India. The region has been experiencing environmental depletion which was a result of colonial policies, exploitation of its ecological and mineral resources, establishment of the plantation industry through deforestation and other factors. This books depicts the precariousness of the environmental situation and traces the history and politics of such degeneration with a view to raise the consciousne...

The book focuses on the confrontation between the colonialists and evangelists over the issue of slavery in the north-eastern part of the British empire in India. Written in the form of a narrative, integrating historical analysis, this work brings out the immense historical significance of this conflict as it exemplified not only the contradictions between the colonial state and the missionary institutions but also the impact of modernization...