Where the Sun Rises When Shadows Fall The North East

by Sen, Geeti

• ISBN13: 9780195682816
• ISBN10: 0195682815
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book on India's north east has a broad perspective that deals with the culture, history and literature of individual states along with a political analysis of the region.

Table of Contents

On creation myths and oral narratives	p. 2
Origin myths of the Mizo	p. 7
The worship of Burasa	p. 12
The story of creation	p. 15
The legend of Chandramali and Kathia Budan	p. 18
A tale of Saioja Badshah and Nawab Radharam	p. 20
The legend of Abo-Tani : the first man on earth	p. 22
Oral narratives of the Merhu	p. 26
Khomjong-nubi Nongkaron : the Pleiades ascending heaven	p. 30
U Thlen : the man-eating serpent	p. 33
Hard-edged modernism : contemporary poetry in North-east India	p. 40
Mamang Dai	p. 45
Nilmani Phookan	p. 49
Thangjam Ibopishak	p. 53
Robin S. Ngangom	p. 57
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih	p. 61
Mona Zote	p. 66
Nini Lungalang	p. 69
Chandra Kanta Murasingh	p. 73
In search of heroes	p. 78
Child of fortune	p. 92
Nagas - down the ages	p. 98
Photo essay by Pablo Bartholomew	p. 99
Where the past meets the future	p. 109
Rites, in passing ...	p. 113
The Ka Lukhmi : a Khasi rice myth	p. 122
Death of a hunter	p. 137
The road to Tawang	p. 149
A new politics of race : India and its North-east	p. 164
Where is this North-east?	p. 177
The Assamese mind : contours of a landscape	p. 189
Heaven in hell : a paradox	p. 203
Women in the time of conflict : the case of Nagaland	p. 213
Re-inventing tradition in performance	p. 227
The Brahmaputra : muse, metaphor, source of life	p. 244
Nagaland in transition	p. 253
The margins strike back : echoes of sovereignty and the Indian state	p. 265
Manipur : fractured land	p. 275
Stitching peace together	p. 288
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