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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction/Amrendra Kumar Thakur. 3. Women slaves in Northeast India: a study/Laithangpuii and Amrendra Kumar Thakur. 3. Slavery among the Singpho and the Khampti tribes of Arunachal Pradesh: an overview/Goken Geyi. 4. The system of servitude in the temples and the Satras of Assam/Nirmal Jyoti Konwar. 5. Lallup in history: a study of state domination in Manipur/H. Sudhir. 6. Slavery in the Garo Society: a study of pre-colonial and colonial times/Angira Kar. 7. Slavery and bondage in the Khasi-Jaintia Society/Hermina Bani Lakiang. 8. Bawi/Boi and Sal in Mizoram/Amrendra Kumar Thakur. 9. Emergence and nature of slavery among the Nagas/Chubala Sanglir. 10. Slavery in Tripura: a historical overview/Pradip Kumar Deepak. 11. Slave trade in Tripura/Ratan Majumder. 12. Bionotes of the contributors and the editor. 13. Index.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Society. 3. Technology. 4. Trade. 5. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. The book is the revised version of the L.N. Chakravarty Memorial Lecture that the author delivered at the Institute of Northeast India Studies in Kolkata in January 2016. In a move that will certainly be apparent to its readers, this book marks a radical departure from the easily available, conventional and largely ethnographical accounts of the history of Arunachal Pradesh. Unlike its several such predecessors which are worthy in their own ways, it seeks to establish and maintain a critical balance between its presentation and reproduction of the facts of the 'pre-colonial lives of the tribes of the state and its analysis of them through various conceptual and theoretical frameworks. While being conscious of the pressures of colonial and anti-colonial nationalist historiography that seek to (mis) represent and appropriate the 'pre-colonial' socio-political, technological and economic history of the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, the author has thus attempted to be as rigorous in his fieldwork and in his references to archival and other sources as to their cogent and coherent scrutiny.…