NIF book by G. Kanato Chophy

Christianity and Politics in Tribal India:

Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism

G. Kanato Chophy

G. Kanato Chophy is an independent researcher and writer from Nagaland. After a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Delhi, he taught at the Central University of Jharkhand in Central India. His specialist interest is the history and social life of Indian tribes, and he is the author of Constructing the Divine: Religion and Worldview of a Naga Tribe in North-East India (Routledge, 2019). He wrote the present work on Naga Baptists and ethnic groups of the Indo–Myanmar frontier as a Fellow of the New India Foundation.

 

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Christianity and Politics in Tribal India

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Arguably, there is no region in the world as in the Naga Hills where Protestant missions have had such far-reaching effect on the ethnic and cultural identity of the inhabitants.