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082			_a954.165 _bCHO
100			_aChophy, G. Kanato
245			_aChristianity and politics in tribal India : Baptist missionaries and Naga nationalism
260			_bPermanent Black, _aRanikhet : _c2022
300			_axviii, 460 p. ; _bill., (b & w), map, _c22 cm
365			_b795.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThrough an ethnohistorical study of the Nagas—a congeries of tribes inhabiting the Indo-Myanmar frontier—this book explores an unusually interesting region of India that is all too often seen as peripheral. G. Kanato Chophy provides a distinct vantage point for understanding the Nagas in relation to colonialism, missionary encounters, identity politics, and cultural change, all seamlessly woven around American Baptist mission history in this region. The book also analyses India's cacophonous postindependence democracy in order to delineate multifaith issues, multiculturalism, and ethnicity-based political movements. Within the West, episodic memories of the "Great Awakening," a significant landmark in the history of Protestantism, have faded into archival records. But among the Nagas of the Indo-Myanmar highlands, Baptist Christianity persists as the dominant religion, influencing the daily lives of nearly three million people. Focusing variously on evangelical faith, missionary zeal, ethnic identities, political struggle, and complex culture wars, Christianity and Politics in Tribal India is an original and major study of how Protestant missions changed the history and destiny of a tribal community in one of the unlikeliest regions of South Asia.
650			_aIndia Baptist Missions
650			_aIndia, Northeastern History
650			_aNaga South Asian People
650			_aReligion Naga
650			_aAmerican Baptist
650			_a Angami
650			_a Assam
650			_aBurma
650			_aCatholic
650			_aDiversity
650			_aEthnonationalism
650			_a Godhula
650			_aHeraka
650			_aIdentity
650			_aIndo-Mynmar
650			_aJadonang
650			_a Konyak
650			_a Lotha Nagas
650			_aManipur
650			_aSalvation
650			_aZeliang Nagas
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