Resistance Movements in North East India: the Jaintias of Meghalaya 1860-1863
by Lamare, Shobhan N
ISBN: 9789390371266
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Imprint : Regency Publications
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 6295.00
Biblio : xiv+166
Author Profile
Shobhan N. Lamare was born in Jowai. He graduated from St. Edmund’ s College, Shillong with honours in History. Two years later he secured a first class M.A. in History from the North-Eastern Hill University. Continuing his studies in the same department, he was awarded the M.Phil. degree in 1995, for his research on “The Cultural Transition of the Pnars” from the middle of the 19th Century to North-Eastern Hill University awarded him the Ph.D. in 2000, his thesis “The Jaintias Resistance: 1860-
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In January 1860, the Jaintias, concerned that the British Indian Government had imposed a house tax on them, the collection of which had started some month earlier and further aggravated by the restrictions on the local customs, rose in resistance to the imperial power. What started as a localised upheaval soon spread over the entire Jaintia Hills. Suppressed in a few months, the British were caught unaware when the Jaintias rose in resistance again in 1862. It was another two years and more be
