The Camera as Witness

Informationen zum Autor Joy L. K. Pachuau is Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has contributed chapters in books like Portuguese Presence in India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Religion in Indian History: Ideas, Practice, and Chance and Chin: History Culture and Identity. Her articles have been published in Studies in History and Eastern Quarterly. Klappentext The book challenges the stereotypes about and narrates the daily lives of the Mizos through the use of vernacular photography. Zusammenfassung Northeast India has for long been classified as remote! exotic and underdeveloped! and has been denied significant attention. This book invests focus where it is due! chronicling the fascinating history of the Mizos through vernacular photography. It brings together the questions of identity formation! nation and global cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of maps; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Part I. Becoming Mizo: 1. Introduction; 2. Coming into view: the first images; 3. Adjusting Mizo culture; 4. Domesticating a new religion; 5. Getting educated; 6. Controlling the hills; 7. The trouble of travel; 8. First stirrings of the market economy; 9. Mizos in the World Wars; 10. Mizo visual sensibilities; Part II. Mizoram in the New India: 11. The long goodbye; 12. The emergence of popular politics; 13. Mizoram and the new Indian order; 14. Mizoram comes to Delhi; 15. The search for authenticity at home; 16. Mizo style: cowboys at heart; Part III. Visions of Independence: 17. Famine and revolt; 18. The Mizoram government at home and in East Pakistan; 19. The Mizoram government in Burma, China and Bangladesh; 20. A state and its minorities; Part IV. Mizo Modernities: 21. Being cool: the music scene; 22. Being cool: sharp dressers; 23. Studio modernity; 24. Conclusion; Acknowledgement of copyrights and sources; Bibliography; Index.

Klappentext
The book challenges the stereotypes about and narrates the daily lives of the Mizos through the use of vernacular photography.

Zusammenfassung
Northeast India has for long been classified as remote, exotic and underdeveloped, and has been denied significant attention. This book invests focus where it is due, chronicling the fascinating history of the Mizos through vernacular photography. It brings together the questions of identity formation, nation and global cultures.

Inhalt
List of figures; List of maps; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Part I. Becoming Mizo: 1. Introduction; 2. Coming into view: the first images; 3. Adjusting Mizo culture; 4. Domesticating a new religion; 5. Getting educated; 6. Controlling the hills; 7. The trouble of travel; 8. First stirrings of the market economy; 9. Mizos in the World Wars; 10. Mizo visual sensibilities; Part II. Mizoram in the New India: 11. The long goodbye; 12. The emergence of popular politics; 13. Mizoram and the new Indian order; 14. Mizoram comes to Delhi; 15. The search for authenticity at home; 16. Mizo style: cowboys at heart; Part III. Visions of Independence: 17. Famine and revolt; 18. The Mizoram government at home and in East Pakistan; 19. The Mizoram government in Burma, China and Bangladesh; 20. A state and its minorities; Part IV. Mizo Modernities: 21. Being cool: the music scene; 22. Being cool: sharp dressers; 23. Studio modernity; 24. Conclusion; Acknowledgement of copyrights and sources; Bibliography; Index.

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