"Raids, Customary Laws & Slavery : A reinterpretation of pre-colonial Naga warfare" talk by Mr. Rammathot Khongreiwo at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 11th September 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Raids, Customary Laws and Slavery : A reinterpretation of pre-colonial Naga warfare’ by Mr. Rammathot Khongreiwo, Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi.
Abstract : In their attempt at justifying their colonial project in present day northeast India, early colonial administrators and western ethnographers bluntly denied the existence of any form of established political and legal systems among the various ‘tribes’ of the region. Similarly, Christian missionaries denied the existence of any form of religion or religious institutions among the various ‘tribes’ inhabiting the region. Under the garb of the so-called ‘civilizing mission’ (i.e. the infamous ‘White men’s burden’ ideology), both the groups penetrated into the interiors of the region beginning in the early nineteenth century. They did many good things for the ‘tribes’ of the region, but not without damages. In fact, the wounds inflicted on the image of the ‘tribes’ of the region were as tremendous as the impact of enlightenment (Western education and Christianity) they brought to them. This paper, therefore, critiques the colonial constructions of ‘wildness’, ‘savagery’, ‘barbarity’ and ‘unruliness’ or ‘lawlessness’ in the context of Naga society, and re-examines various aspects of Naga warfare, early colonial ethnographers, administrators and missionaries had stereotyped and misrepresented.
Speaker : Mr.Rammathot Khongreiwo is currently teaching History in Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi as Assistant Professor, and simultaneously working on his Ph. D. Thesis, entitled ‘Archaeologies of Landscapes: A Social and Religious History of the Nagas of Nagaland and Manipur’. He has been awarded with Dr. Malti Nagar Ethnoarchaeology Award for the Year 2007 by the Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies (ISPQS) for his paper entitled “Changes and Continuities in Tangkhul Naga Megalithic Tradition”, presented at the Annual Conference of the Society held at Raipur in 2007. Some of his published research papers are: ‘Tangkhul Naga Megalithic Tradition: A Case Study of North Ukhrul, Manipur’, Man and Environment XXXIII (1) 2008 (Journal of the Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies), pp.116-125; ‘Understanding the Histories of Peoples on the Margins: A Critique of “Northeast India’s Durable Disorder”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 34, Number 4, 2009. pp. 437-454 (Colorado, USA); ‘Landscapes and Pre-Christian Naga Belief Systems: Cosmology, God, Spirits and ‘Land of the Dead’, Journal of Tribal Studies, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (Jan-June), 2011, pp. 43-67. Jorhat: Tribal Study Centre, Eastern Theological College, Jorhat (Assam).
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Raids, Customary Laws and Slavery : A reinterpretation of pre-colonial Naga warfare’ by Mr. Rammathot Khongreiwo, Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi.
Abstract : In their attempt at justifying their colonial project in present day northeast India, early colonial administrators and western ethnographers bluntly denied the existence of any form of established political and legal systems among the various ‘tribes’ of the region. Similarly, Christian missionaries denied the existence of any form of religion or religious institutions among the various ‘tribes’ inhabiting the region. Under the garb of the so-called ‘civilizing mission’ (i.e. the infamous ‘White men’s burden’ ideology), both the groups penetrated into the interiors of the region beginning in the early nineteenth century. They did many good things for the ‘tribes’ of the region, but not without damages. In fact, the wounds inflicted on the image of the ‘tribes’ of the region were as tremendous as the impact of enlightenment (Western education and Christianity) they brought to them. This paper, therefore, critiques the colonial constructions of ‘wildness’, ‘savagery’, ‘barbarity’ and ‘unruliness’ or ‘lawlessness’ in the context of Naga society, and re-examines various aspects of Naga warfare, early colonial ethnographers, administrators and missionaries had stereotyped and misrepresented.
Speaker : Mr.Rammathot Khongreiwo is currently teaching History in Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi as Assistant Professor, and simultaneously working on his Ph. D. Thesis, entitled ‘Archaeologies of Landscapes: A Social and Religious History of the Nagas of Nagaland and Manipur’. He has been awarded with Dr. Malti Nagar Ethnoarchaeology Award for the Year 2007 by the Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies (ISPQS) for his paper entitled “Changes and Continuities in Tangkhul Naga Megalithic Tradition”, presented at the Annual Conference of the Society held at Raipur in 2007. Some of his published research papers are: ‘Tangkhul Naga Megalithic Tradition: A Case Study of North Ukhrul, Manipur’, Man and Environment XXXIII (1) 2008 (Journal of the Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies), pp.116-125; ‘Understanding the Histories of Peoples on the Margins: A Critique of “Northeast India’s Durable Disorder”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 34, Number 4, 2009. pp. 437-454 (Colorado, USA); ‘Landscapes and Pre-Christian Naga Belief Systems: Cosmology, God, Spirits and ‘Land of the Dead’, Journal of Tribal Studies, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (Jan-June), 2011, pp. 43-67. Jorhat: Tribal Study Centre, Eastern Theological College, Jorhat (Assam).
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