Economic and Political Weekly, 59(46), 16 Nov. 2024, pp. 21-23. Fulltext PDF When the East India Company acquired the Diwani of Bengal in 1765, the present-day Meghalaya state became the immediate frontier of the Company, until Assam was fully annexed over the next century. The inhabitants of this frontier were, describes Alexander Mackenzie (1884: 245), Secretary to the Government of India in the […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip Sadar Hills was burning in September 2007 during the Manipur panchayat polls. The two Kuki organisations, Sadar Hills District Demand Committee (SHDDC) and Kuki Students Organisation (KSO), opposed the inclusion of some areas in Sadar Hills under Panchayati Raj system. Violence rocked during the panchayat elections held on September 19, 2007, where supporters of the SHDDC and […]
» Read moreThongkholal Haokip Ahsijolneng – The Monthly Voice of KSO Shillong, October 30th 2005. A year had passed since a two day seminar on Manmasi Identity (Kuki-Chin-Mizo) in Northeast India was held from 15th to 17th October, 2004 at Bethany Home, Shillong. In that seminar Dr. Khuplam, Dr. Seilen and Father Peter Tongmang presented papers related to the aforesaid topic. They […]
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