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ETHNIC IDENTITY AND CHRISTIANITY - LALSANGKIMA ...

Two of the most intense movements for political secession from India had been staged in the two
tribal states of Northeast India  namely Nagaland and Mizoram. Because the two states record
the country's highest percentage of Christian populations  Christian missions in the Northeast
have been suspected and accused of having played clandestine roles. This book challenges this
presumptuous allegation  and proposes that the root of the ethno-political movements must be
sought in the identity-formation process of the people. The Northeast tribals' resentment to
the depressing political identity imposed on them and their resistance to the threat of
domination are identified as the immediate factors for the ethnopolitical revolutions. The
development of Christianity in Mizoram is selected as the focus of the study. The study
discloses that the Mizo Christian experience of ecstatic revivals uniquely interlaced
Christianity with the people's cultural identity  engendering the spirit ofMizo
ethnonationalism. The emergent people's strong sense of identity resisted the threat of
cultural domination and political assimilation by the Indic India.

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