Modern Mizoram

P. Thirumal is Professor at the Department of Communication, S. N. School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. His areas of interest and specialization include theory and history of media, histories of technologies and communities, borderland media history and the North East region of India. He has published in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Seminar and the Economic & Political Weekly and has written for newspapers and periodicals. Laldinpuii teaches English at Government Aizawl West College, Mizoram, India. She was awarded a PhD at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in 2017. Her thesis dealt with the formation of identities through Mizo and Khasi folktales. She has presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences and has contributed articles to journals. C. Lalrozami is Programme Coordinator at the Directorate of State Council for Educational Research and Training, Aizawl, Mizoram, India. She has presented papers in several conferences and seminars and contributed articles in books and local magazines. She has prepared a number of documentary films and educational television programmes which have been broadcast in national channels such as Doordarshan Kendra and the regional channels.

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. On the Discursive and Material Context of the First Handwritten Lushai newspaper Mizo Chanchin Laishuih 2. The Celebration of Puma Zai and the Self-Fashioning of the Lushai 3. The Postcolonial Inheritance of Puma Zai 4. Cultural Works and Their Conversation Across Temporalities: The Pheichham Image. Glossary. Bibliography. Index