Women's Movement in Manipur
Author: Thokchom Binarani Devi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788180697791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thokchom Binarani Devi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788180697791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tingneichong G. Kipgen
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788178358031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: R. K. Helen Devi
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9788192304502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Teresa Rehman
Publisher: Zubaan Books
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789384757762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →July 15, 2004: An amazing scene unfolds in front of the Kangla Fort in Manipur, the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. Soldiers and officers watch aghast as twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, position themselves in front of the gates and then, one by one, strip themselves naked. The imas, the mothers of Manipur, are in a cold fury, protesting the custodial rape and murder of Thangjam Manorama, a 32-year-old woman, alleged by the army to be a militant. The women hold aloft banners that shout, 'Indian Army Rape Us', 'Take Our Flesh'. Never has this happened before: the army is appalled. Hundreds of thousands of people around the country, watching the drama unfold, are shocked. Can this be possible? A naked protest in India? By mothers? The imas of Manipur are known to be strong, self-sufficient. It is they who by and large run the economy of the state; here, though, they are doing something different. Manorama's death is the trigger for their renewed protest against the Draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958, which is used with impunity in the state and excuses all sorts of army excesses. Manipur has witnessed several decades of low-intensity war with more than twenty militant outfits operating in the state. In this unusual book, journalist Teresa Rehman, tells the story of the twelve women, of how they took the momentous decision - in some cases unknown to their families - and how they carried it out with precision and care. The story of the mothers of Manipur reflects the larger history of the conflict-torn state and of the courage and resistance of the people in the face of overwhelming odds.
Author: Mahendra Narain Karna
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9788173870835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of papers presented at a seminar with special reference to women, youth and religion in August 1994 at Shillong.
Author: Thingnam Anjulika Samom, (ed.)
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9385932977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in 8th Century AD. It was however only in the second half of the twentieth century that women began writing and publishing their works. Today, women’s writing forms a vibrant part of Manipuri literature, and their voices are amplified through their coming together as an all-woman literary group. Put together in discussions and workshops by Thingnam Anjulika Samom, Crafting the Word captures a region steeped in conservative patriarchy and at the centre of an armed conflict. It is also a place, however, where women’s activism has been at the forefront of peace-making and where their contributions in informal commerce and trade hold together the economy of daily life.
Author: Binodini Devi
Publisher: India Penguin Modern Classics
Published: 2020-07-13
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780143446514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Manipuri writer Binodini's Sahitya Akademi Award-winning historical novel The Princess and the Political Agent tells the love story of her aunt Princess Sanatombi and Lt. Col. Henry P. Maxwell, the British representative in the subjugated Tibeto-Burman kingdom of Manipur. A poignant story of love and fealty, treachery and valour, it is set in the midst of the imperialist intrigues of the British Raj, the glory of kings, warring princes, clever queens and loyal retainers. Reviving front-page global headlines of the day, Binodini's perspective is from the vanquished by love and war, and the humbling of a proud kingdom. Its sorrows and empathy sparkle with wit and beauty, as it deftly dissects the build-up and aftermath of the perfidy of the Anglo-Manipuri War of 1891. Binodini is the supreme stylist of contemporary Manipuri literature and an icon of Manipuri modernism, and her tale of a forbidden love and ostracism vividly brings to life the court and manners of a little-known Asian kingdom. In doing so, she recovers its little-known history, its untold relations with India and Great Britain, and a forgotten chapter of the British Raj.
Author: Ashild Kolas
Publisher: Zubaan Books
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789385932304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by scholarship, they have played a crucial role in attempts to strengthen civil society and bring peace to the region. This collection offers a close look at the successes and failures of those efforts, adding important insight into ongoing debates on gender and political change in societies affected by conflict. At the same time, the book takes a fresh, critical look at universalist feminist and interventionist biases that have tended to see peace processes as windows of opportunity for women's empowerment while ignoring the complexity of gender relations during conflict.