A Review of Abraham Lotha’s History of Naga Anthropology (1832-1947).

Chumpo Museum Publication, Dimapur, Nagaland, 2007. Rs. 250.

 History of Naga Anthropology (1832-1947) is a short monograph on writings about Nagas by British colonial administrators and ethnographers from 1832, the year Nagas first came in contact with the British, to 1947, the year the Raj dissolved and the British officially left the Naga Hills.  The book is based on research Abraham Lotha did for the master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology at Columbia University in New York.  He is currently working on his PhD dissertation at CUNY’s Graduate Center. Read the rest of this entry »