David Vumlallian Zou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Vumlallian Zou |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Vumlallian |
| FAMILY NAME | Zou |
| SIGNATURE | ZOU D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9653-2869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India
Sanghamitra Misra, Becoming a Borderland: Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India, Routledge, New Delhi, 2011, 236 + xiv pp., ₹695. Indrani Chatterjee, Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013, 451 + xiv pp., ₹1025. Gunnel Cederlöf, Founding an Empire on India’s North-eastern Frontiers 1790–1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014, 272…
Mapping a Colonial Borderland
India's Northeast frontier is at the margins of three study areas: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. This paper attempts a history of "mapping" in its broader sense as a cultural universal over a relatively long period. It is not a history of cartography, but focuses on the interface between cartography and cosmography, which were, in turn, shaped by imperial power and geographical knowledge. This approach offers a high-altitude view of …
The Pasts of a Fringe Community
Drawing on the practices of ethno-history and micro-history, this article examines the nature of community-state relation in the borderland between southern Manipur and Upper Burma. Identified by different names, the Zou is a fringe community and a non-state entity that has sustained a fluid identity under changing historical contexts. Within the ‘galactic polities’ of pre-colonial Chin Hills, the confederate Zou chiefs lost out to their agnatic …
Raiding the dreaded past
This article looks at the diverse and rich representations of headhunting in north-east India, especially in the European translations of this tribal practice into ethnographic 'writings' during the late imperial age. Colonial concern and anxiety to 'civilise' the headhunter and 'control' this 'savage' practice in the hills is characterised by inner contradictions at every level of its articulation and operation. Headhunting is a history, a herit…
Mapping a Colonial Borderland
India's Northeast frontier is at the margins of three study areas: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. This paper attempts a history of "mapping" in its broader sense as a cultural universal over a relatively long period. It is not a history of cartography, but focuses on the interface between cartography and cosmography, which were, in turn, shaped by imperial power and geographical knowledge. This approach offers a high-altitude view of …
Raiding the dreaded past
This article looks at the diverse and rich representations of headhunting in north-east India, especially in the European translations of this tribal practice into ethnographic 'writings' during the late imperial age. Colonial concern and anxiety to 'civilise' the headhunter and 'control' this 'savage' practice in the hills is characterised by inner contradictions at every level of its articulation and operation. Headhunting is a history, a herit…
Raiding the dreaded past
This article looks at the diverse and rich representations of headhunting in north-east India, especially in the European translations of this tribal practice into ethnographic 'writings' during the late imperial age. Colonial concern and anxiety to 'civilise' the headhunter and 'control' this 'savage' practice in the hills is characterised by inner contradictions at every level of its articulation and operation. Headhunting is a history, a herit…
The Pasts of a Fringe Community
Drawing on the practices of ethno-history and micro-history, this article examines the nature of community-state relation in the borderland between southern Manipur and Upper Burma. Identified by different names, the Zou is a fringe community and a non-state entity that has sustained a fluid identity under changing historical contexts. Within the ‘galactic polities’ of pre-colonial Chin Hills, the confederate Zou chiefs lost out to their agnatic …
Mapping a Colonial Borderland
India's Northeast frontier is at the margins of three study areas: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. This paper attempts a history of "mapping" in its broader sense as a cultural universal over a relatively long period. It is not a history of cartography, but focuses on the interface between cartography and cosmography, which were, in turn, shaped by imperial power and geographical knowledge. This approach offers a high-altitude view of …
Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India
Sanghamitra Misra, Becoming a Borderland: Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India, Routledge, New Delhi, 2011, 236 + xiv pp., ₹695. Indrani Chatterjee, Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013, 451 + xiv pp., ₹1025. Gunnel Cederlöf, Founding an Empire on India’s North-eastern Frontiers 1790–1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014, 272…
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works)