![]() ![]() Jangkhomang Guite is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian Studies, area studies, modern history, military and strategic studies, insurgency and counterinsurgency studies, tribal warfare and politics. Drawing on archival sources, extensive fieldwork and oral histories, the volume will be a significant contribution to comprehending the complex geopolitics of the region. The volume also looks at how the conflict affected the larger dynamics of the region within Asia, and its relevance in world politics beyond the Great War. ![]() The chapters in the volume examine several aspects of the war, which had far-reaching consequences for the indigenous population, as well as for British attitudes and policies towards the region – including military strategy and tactics, violence, politics, identity, institutions, gender, culture and the frontier dimensions of the First World War itself. It underlines how the three-year war (1917–1919), spanning over 6000 square miles, is crucial to understanding present-day Northeast India. This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in the frontier of Northeast India (then Assam-Burma frontier). Part V Trial and tribulation.ġ1 Keeping them under control: impact of the Anglo-Kuki War. Part III Ideas, ideology and institutions.ĥ Patriots and utilitarians in the Anglo-Kuki War: the case of southern Manipur, 1917–1919.Ħ ‘As men of one country’: rethinking the history of the Anglo-Kuki War.ħ ‘Speak as one free nation’: significance of the Kuki war council.Ĩ Revisiting the ‘military’: role of som institution in the Anglo-Kuki War.ĩ Aphonic partners of war: role of Kuki women in the Anglo-Kuki War.ġ0 Her-story in history: women’s roles and participation in the Anglo-Kuki War. Part II Tactics, technology and symbols.ģ Breaking the spirit of the Kukis: launching the ‘largest series of military operations’ in the northeastern frontier of India.Ĥ ‘These crafty jungle fighters’: tactics, technology and symbols of Kuki war. Part I Understanding the Anglo-Kuki War.ġ ‘Fighting the white men till the last bullet’: the general course of the Anglo-Kuki War.Ģ The ‘Haka uprising’ in Chin Hills, 1917–1918. ![]()
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