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BOOKS AND AUTHORS - August 2019

Aug 2019

Aug 10, 2019

Deep Halder's Blood Island - a series of recitations by those who remember the experience.

  •  The 1979 Marichjhapi massacre is entirely forgotten and does not find a place even in history text books. Indeed, the magnitude of the historical negligence by the State and its citizens over killings in the lush mangroves of the Sunderbans has never been in focus. Few even know about it, and a handful have lived to tell the tale. 
  • Though Blood Island opens and closes with a memory, it is a strictly journalistic endeavour and documents history well. From a shifting lens, the author gives a rounded view of the island that was once home to Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, and that eventually turned into a battleground.
  • The book charts the unfulfilled promises of the Jyoti Basu-led Left government in West Bengal and shows how the refugees were shifted from one terrible camp to another until they decided to make the island of Marichjhapi their home. 
  • Justifiably,Blood Island does not hold back in its criticism of the government. Witnesses talk of the state-sponsored violence that killed thousands (although officially, the death toll is in single digits) gathered there. The book hints that the state action against harmless refugees was motivated by caste politics, that the animosity of the 'people's government' towards the group was influenced by their position in the social hierarchy.

Walking The Roadless Road: Exploring The Tribes Of Nagaland By Easterine Kire

  •  Easterine Kire's timely book looks at everything from myths of origin, village structure, institutions, and clans to the festivals, rituals, and taboos of the tribes of Nagaland
  • It is this fear that prompted Easterine Kire to write Walking the Roadless Road: Exploring the Tribes of Nagaland. The book claims to be "a comprehensive history of the Naga tribes who live within the borders of Nagaland."
  • That the study has been limited to the 16 Nagaland tribes means prominent Naga tribes like Tangkhul and Mao (they are concentrated in Manipur's Ukhrul and Senapati districts) are excluded while non-Naga tribes like Kuki and Dimasa Kachari are included.
  • The book ambitiously attempts to trace the evolution of the tribes from their origin in antiquity to the 21st century.
  • However, more than half is devoted to the nature and culture of Naga society before the arrival of Christianity.
  • The tone is descriptive and the near absence of chronology gives the stories a feel of timelessness. In a way, this puts a question mark over the book's claim to be a historical study.
  • Nevertheless, this is a timely book that tries to encapsulate the tribal story and looks at everything from origin myths, village structure, and institutions like the morung and the Feast of Merit to the spiritual world, clan systems, festivals, rituals relating to birth, marriage and funerals, and the customary law practices and social taboos of each tribe.
  • The centrality of land to the Naga identity is also beautifully laid out.
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