The Quest for Identity : The Tribal Solidarity Movement in North-East India, 1947-69

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The land and peoples. 3. British annexation of the tribal areas. 4. British administration in the tribal areas. 5. Jesus, education and the rise of intelligentsia: beginning of tribal solidarity. 6. Constitutional development in India: tribal intelligentsia\'s quest for political identity. 7. Concluding remarks. Bibliography.

"This work is an in-depth study of how the preliterate hill people of North-Eastern India reinvented their ethnic nationalistic identities under British Colonial Rule and Christian evangelical education.

This book is an explanation of his understanding of Hill state movements which ended in the establishment of Meghalaya in 1971." (jacket)