Chiefly political aspects of the study.

Highlights the ethnological, cultural background and administrative set up of the Mizos, the growth of early politics resulting in the formation of the District Council for the Mizos and the Regional Council for the major tribes, pawi lakher and chakma to manage their local affairs by their own genius. It studies the Mizo National Front, violence, secessionism and counter insurgency measure/ pacification and other political parties/groups, their impact on socio-economic development, electoral politics and voting behaviour. Besides, the constitutional politics resulting in the formation of the union territory of Mizoram/State and government has also been discussed. Developmental-cum-political solution to the vexed problem of Mizoram in particular and National integration in the country in general has been discused. Reviews The book is the first comprehensive research work on the politics and Government of Mizoram and is a excellent piece of work. Dr. K.M. Mathur, Journal of I.I.P.A., April-June 1987. Deals with political, social, economic and administrative aspects. Can be termed as an Encyclopaedia on Mizoram..... Broadly covers all aspects of Mizoram past and present. Shri Hiteshwar Saikia, Governor, Mizoram. The book is a very useful study and fills the vacuum on material about the government and politics of the North-Eastern states. Nawaz B. Mody, Review Projector, Vol. VIII, Nos. 10-12.

Mizoram is situated at a unique cusp in North East India, in terms of both physical and social contexts. It shares its borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, while cultural influences range from the indigenous to the Western. This book offers an alternative understanding of the modern history of Mizoram through an analysis of its cultural practices through language, music, poetry and festivals. It explores the roots of modern cultural works not just in Christianity, but also in precolonial Mizo traditional practices. The authors closely examine text, performance and sculptural images, including the first handwritten newspaper Mizo Chanchin Laisuih (1898) and the Puma Zai festival (1907–11) from the early colonial period along with a contemporary sculptural image. They argue that cultural works open up to new forms of interpretations and responses over time. The book indicates that the Mizo creative sensibility enmeshed in theological, capitalistic-material and political/ideological regimes informs its modern enclosures, be it region, religion or nation. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, media, history, politics, sociology and social anthropology, area studies, North East India studies and South Asian studies.