Jangkhomang Guite
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jangkhomang Guite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jangkhomang |
| FAMILY NAME | Guite |
| SIGNATURE | GUITE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1662-4873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Another front, another story: Relief and rehabilitation in post-second World War Northeast India, 1944-1955
This paper examines post-WW2 relief measures in Northeast India. It employs two registers of aid – first, donor’s (colonial state) and recipient’s (the tribes) narratives of aid, second, the ripple effect of aid intervention in subsequent periods. The official assumption about aid was governed by a non-humanitarian political contingency of embedding rule more firmly in the frontier. Tribal recipients perceived charitable aid as a ‘rightful and le…
Rite of passage in the Great War: The long march of Northeast Indian labourers to France, 1917–1918
This article focuses on the little-known Indian Labour Corps (ILC) who hailed from the Northeast frontier of India during the Great War (WW1). It engages with the labour recruitment process, their collective experience during the long march to France, the nature of their work and life at the warzone camps, their heroic homecoming and subsequently, their life back into the heart of the hills. It argues that large numbers of hill people from the re…
Colonial violence and its 'Small Wars: Fighting the Kuki 'guerillas' during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917-1919
This paper concerns the lesser known British counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Northeast frontier of India during the First World War. Officially known as the ‘Kuki Operations’, it was considered as part of the Great War. Carried out in isolation from press and public, and shelved in colonial archives, the event remained invisible until today. Yet, it registers a critical case of colonial COIN doctrine where the ‘moral effect’ doctrine was e…
Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919
One Event, Two States: Commemorating the Deaths of 1891 in Manipur
This article examines the way in which an event is remembered by two opposing states. It concerns, partly, with the way in which ‘official’ monuments came up in public space, and partly, with the process of transformation of social memory with the change in political regime. It takes the case of an 1891 event in Manipur (the Anglo-Manipur War). It will be seen that the erection of a ‘national monument’ under the colonial regime involved a tedious…
Colonialism and Its Unruly?-The Colonial State and Kuki Raids in Nineteenth Century Northeast India
This paper examines the colonial representation of tribal raids in the Northeast frontier of India and argues that, rather than being the 'lawless and predatory habits of the savage hill tribes', it was an expression of hill politics. The Kukis raided British territory when they discovered that an extension of the colonial boundary threatened their very existence as an independent state-evading population. It traces how the Kukis re-ethnicized th…
The English Company and the Catholics of Madras, in the Age of Religious Conflicts in England, 1640–1750
This article seeks to explain how enduring anti-Catholic sentiment in England influenced the policy of the English Company towards the Catholic community in its overseas colonies. While England was struggling to get rid of the ‘dregs of popery’, the Company and its servants were struggling during the same period to finally evict their majority Catholic populations from Madras in 1749. The Company largely depended upon the strength of the Indo-Por…
Civilisation and its malcontents: The politics of Kuki raid in nineteenth century Northeast India
This article examines the colonial representation of Kuki raids in nineteenth century Northeastern India as, at best, ‘lawlessness’ and, at worst, ‘predatory habits of the savage hill tribes’ whose ‘natural love of plunder’ took of it as an ‘amusement’ for procuring human heads or captives for sacrificial purposes. From the hill perspective, it argues that raiding was mainly made to procure human labour forces, and was an expression of hill polit…
Representing Local Participation in INA–Japanese Imphal Campaign: The Case of the Kukis in Manipur, 1943–45
In the history of World War II in eastern India the participation of local people is the least attended subject due to the belief that the whole tribal belt was with the Allied forces. This is untrue. Those groups who had directly come into contact with the invading forces were supporting them in various ways. This is especially true to the people of Manipur. This article makes the point that Kukis had contacted the Indo-Japanese forces even befo…
Colonialism and Its Unruly?-The Colonial State and Kuki Raids in Nineteenth Century Northeast India
This paper examines the colonial representation of tribal raids in the Northeast frontier of India and argues that, rather than being the 'lawless and predatory habits of the savage hill tribes', it was an expression of hill politics. The Kukis raided British territory when they discovered that an extension of the colonial boundary threatened their very existence as an independent state-evading population. It traces how the Kukis re-ethnicized th…
Colonial violence and its 'Small Wars: Fighting the Kuki 'guerillas' during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917-1919
This paper concerns the lesser known British counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Northeast frontier of India during the First World War. Officially known as the ‘Kuki Operations’, it was considered as part of the Great War. Carried out in isolation from press and public, and shelved in colonial archives, the event remained invisible until today. Yet, it registers a critical case of colonial COIN doctrine where the ‘moral effect’ doctrine was e…
Civilisation and its malcontents: The politics of Kuki raid in nineteenth century Northeast India
This article examines the colonial representation of Kuki raids in nineteenth century Northeastern India as, at best, ‘lawlessness’ and, at worst, ‘predatory habits of the savage hill tribes’ whose ‘natural love of plunder’ took of it as an ‘amusement’ for procuring human heads or captives for sacrificial purposes. From the hill perspective, it argues that raiding was mainly made to procure human labour forces, and was an expression of hill polit…
Rite of passage in the Great War: The long march of Northeast Indian labourers to France, 1917–1918
This article focuses on the little-known Indian Labour Corps (ILC) who hailed from the Northeast frontier of India during the Great War (WW1). It engages with the labour recruitment process, their collective experience during the long march to France, the nature of their work and life at the warzone camps, their heroic homecoming and subsequently, their life back into the heart of the hills. It argues that large numbers of hill people from the re…
Representing Local Participation in INA–Japanese Imphal Campaign: The Case of the Kukis in Manipur, 1943–45
In the history of World War II in eastern India the participation of local people is the least attended subject due to the belief that the whole tribal belt was with the Allied forces. This is untrue. Those groups who had directly come into contact with the invading forces were supporting them in various ways. This is especially true to the people of Manipur. This article makes the point that Kukis had contacted the Indo-Japanese forces even befo…
Civilisation and its malcontents: The politics of Kuki raid in nineteenth century Northeast India
This article examines the colonial representation of Kuki raids in nineteenth century Northeastern India as, at best, ‘lawlessness’ and, at worst, ‘predatory habits of the savage hill tribes’ whose ‘natural love of plunder’ took of it as an ‘amusement’ for procuring human heads or captives for sacrificial purposes. From the hill perspective, it argues that raiding was mainly made to procure human labour forces, and was an expression of hill polit…
The English Company and the Catholics of Madras, in the Age of Religious Conflicts in England, 1640–1750
This article seeks to explain how enduring anti-Catholic sentiment in England influenced the policy of the English Company towards the Catholic community in its overseas colonies. While England was struggling to get rid of the ‘dregs of popery’, the Company and its servants were struggling during the same period to finally evict their majority Catholic populations from Madras in 1749. The Company largely depended upon the strength of the Indo-Por…
Colonialism and Its Unruly?-The Colonial State and Kuki Raids in Nineteenth Century Northeast India
This paper examines the colonial representation of tribal raids in the Northeast frontier of India and argues that, rather than being the 'lawless and predatory habits of the savage hill tribes', it was an expression of hill politics. The Kukis raided British territory when they discovered that an extension of the colonial boundary threatened their very existence as an independent state-evading population. It traces how the Kukis re-ethnicized th…
One Event, Two States: Commemorating the Deaths of 1891 in Manipur
This article examines the way in which an event is remembered by two opposing states. It concerns, partly, with the way in which ‘official’ monuments came up in public space, and partly, with the process of transformation of social memory with the change in political regime. It takes the case of an 1891 event in Manipur (the Anglo-Manipur War). It will be seen that the erection of a ‘national monument’ under the colonial regime involved a tedious…
Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919
Colonial violence and its 'Small Wars: Fighting the Kuki 'guerillas' during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917-1919
This paper concerns the lesser known British counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Northeast frontier of India during the First World War. Officially known as the ‘Kuki Operations’, it was considered as part of the Great War. Carried out in isolation from press and public, and shelved in colonial archives, the event remained invisible until today. Yet, it registers a critical case of colonial COIN doctrine where the ‘moral effect’ doctrine was e…
Rite of passage in the Great War: The long march of Northeast Indian labourers to France, 1917–1918
This article focuses on the little-known Indian Labour Corps (ILC) who hailed from the Northeast frontier of India during the Great War (WW1). It engages with the labour recruitment process, their collective experience during the long march to France, the nature of their work and life at the warzone camps, their heroic homecoming and subsequently, their life back into the heart of the hills. It argues that large numbers of hill people from the re…
Another front, another story: Relief and rehabilitation in post-second World War Northeast India, 1944-1955
This paper examines post-WW2 relief measures in Northeast India. It employs two registers of aid – first, donor’s (colonial state) and recipient’s (the tribes) narratives of aid, second, the ripple effect of aid intervention in subsequent periods. The official assumption about aid was governed by a non-humanitarian political contingency of embedding rule more firmly in the frontier. Tribal recipients perceived charitable aid as a ‘rightful and le…
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