The Lost Kingdom of Moyon (Bujuur)


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The book The Lost Kingdom of Moyon (Bujuur): Iruwng (King) Kuurkam Ngoruw Moyon & The People of Manipur is not to produce a new history of Moyon, Who were earlier known as Bujuur, but rather to tell the true and authentical historical account of the Moyon people through the ages and centuries how their creator led them during their past lives. It also deals concerning kingship, and introduce the kingdom of God.




Basis of Preaching Biblical Message: Preach the Word


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Public Speaking is one of the most important task and challenging to the human beings. It is imperative for all the committed Christians to lean, learn and live with the Biblical truths. As such, the knowledge and application of Scripture is an utmost necessity to be grounded upon the word of God. The necessity of Scripture means that the Bible is necessary for knowing the gospel, for maintaining spiritual and moral life, and for knowing God’s will, but is not necessary for knowing that God exists or for knowing something about God’s character and moral law. Basis of Preaching Biblical Message: Preach the Word is for the glory of God, the building up of the church and society, and the spreading of the Gospel to the ends of the earth; that is, to all the creation. Biblical preaching is centered around and takes its content from the inerrant Word of God. True Biblical preaching aims at life change. Biblical preaching also comes through the personality of the preacher. Some communicators or preachers are encouragers, some are confrontational. Some are humour, while others use sound logic and well-reasoned content. It is not good to fall into the trap of trying to mimic your favourite preacher. Instead, learn from them, and develop your own style as a good communicator. Rev Dr Koningthung Ngoru Moyon presents Biblical Preaching in his book ‘Basis of Preaching Biblical Message: Preach the Word’ is both an art and a science. It is a science in the sense that there are rules and principles of communication that we are to follow. It is an art in that each person brings his own unique personality and style to the preaching experience. ‘Preaching is truth through personality’. Both are necessary. However, the very important and foremost focus in the book is that Biblical Preaching is empowered by the work of the Holy Spirit is focus in the book.




Women in Naga Society


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Collection of papers presented at a seminar.




Burma


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The early history of Burma is obscure. The Burmese chronicles begin with the supposed foundation of Tagaung in 850 B.C., but the stories they tell are copies of Indian legends taken from Sanskrit or Pali originals. The earliest extant description of Further India is in the Geography of the Alexandrian scholar, Ptolemy, who flourished in the middle of the second century A.D. He refers to the inhabitants of the Irrawaddy Delta as cannibals. These were not, however, the Burmese, for their migrations into the country had not started. In Ptolemy’s time the dominant race in Indo-China was Indonesian. It must have been strongly represented in Burma, since her modern inhabitants show clear traces of the mixture.




The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar


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Indira Goswami’s last work of fiction, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar is the heroic tale of a Bodo freedom fighter who was, arguably, the first woman revenue collector, a tehsildar, in British India. Set in late 19th-century Assam, the novel generated a great deal of interest when it was published. Thengphakhri is a fascinating character that the author recreated from folklore and songs and stories that she’d heard in her childhood. The image of the protagonist, galloping across the plains of Bijni kingdom in lower Assam to collect taxes for the British, is a compelling one and one that inspires awe and admiration. At a time when educated Indians, social reformers and the British government were trying to fight misogynist practices such as sati, child marriage and the purdah system, here was a woman working with the British officers, shoulder to shoulder, as a tax collector who rode a horse, wore a hat and had knee-length black hair. Indira Goswami has woven a complex tale wherein the foundations of the colonial rulers were shaken by insurgents seeking freedom across Assam just before the rise of the Indian National Congress. Published by Zubaan.




A History of Thailand


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A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to take control of the nation-state in the twentieth century. They track Thailand's economic changes through an economic boom, globalisation and the evolution of mass society. This edition sheds light on Thailand's recent political, social and economic developments, covering the coup of 2006, the violent street politics of May 2010, and the landmark election of 2011 and its aftermath. It shows how in Thailand today, the monarchy, the military, business and new mass movements are players in a complex conflict over the nature and future of the country's democracy.







The Thadou Kukis


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The River of Lost Footsteps


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For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future? In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, and a sixty-year civil war that continues today and is the longest-running war anywhere in the world. The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal and global, a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling.




Ethnicity in Manipur


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