PREFACEThe matrilineal clan lineage is considered sacred by the Khasi people till today, even as the extent of sanctity has declined in the urban middle-class society, due to the onslaught of popular and dominated patriarchal culture. Perhaps, the term matriliny needs to be redefined in the Khasi context of clan relationships to achieve a more precise and specific definition. The attachment of the maternal mother and paternal mother to their respective children in the process of the human reproduction system is abided in all respects. The paternal mother is considered as the provider of a father, a male parent responsible ...

The Truth About The First Indian War of IndependenceRaphael WarjriThe British was already in acquisition of Assam in 1824 prior to the Treaty of Yandaboo in 1826 and thereafter gained control over the Brahmaputra valley. With the strategy to expand the British empire in India, David Scott, the agent to the British Governor-General for the Northern Territory, realised that Syiem Tirot Sing was eager in regaining the territory of his province in the plains captured by the neighbouring dominion, which was assumed to have been acquired by the British. In 1827 David Scott identified Nongkhlaw as a suitable ...

Paper presentation by Afreen Kraipak Khyriem  Cultural Nationalism, Swadeshi and the Occidental Orientation   Indian Nationalism and the visual art during 1905-1920 was an amalgamation based on the ideology of the Swadeshi or self reliance. It was at this juncture in history that Occidental orientation echoed the Nation-wide collective consciousness that sought to rid itself of Colonial Westernization and its attributes. As a sign, art of the Revivalist aesthetics became a tool of the cultural renaissance that began first during the Partition of West Bengal and eventually manifested into a Hindu nationalism. My Paper seeks to critique the ...