Full Description
Written by an exiled former Secretary General of the Chin National League for Democracy, this study contains valuable data on the Chin and their role in the history of Burma, and provides a clear analysis of the close relationship between religion, ethnicity and nationalism.
Contents
Part one - the Chin background: who are the Chin?; the Chin traditional ways of life - Phunglam; rituals, power and status in Chin society. Part two - Colonial power, Christian mission and the Chin response: the British annexation of Chinram; the coming of Christianity to East Chinram; the Chin response - towards the Anglo-Chin War and its aftermath. Part three - the Chin towards independent Burma: the repercussions of the Burma Act and World War II; the joining of the Union of Burma; the Chin spirituality in the new context. Part four - The role of the Church in the struggle for liberation: the Chin in Buddhist Burma; the Chin churches under military dictatorship rule; conclusion.
