Education as a site of contestation among Nagas in Manipur: politics of language and cultural assertion in the school curriculum

IF 0.9 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Asian Ethnicity Pub Date : 2023-02-07 DOI:10.1080/14631369.2023.2172548

Ch Job Chawang

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article is an attempt to understand education in light of the complex multiethnic relationships and politics prevailing in the state of Manipur. With the sustained tension between the Nagas, Kukis, and Meiteis over the matter of identity, education in the state remains massively divided along ethnic lines. That said, the Meiteis, as the ethnic majority, have been systematically influential in prioritising their identity and development in education, as its control remains in their purview. The subsequent claim and counterclaim regarding the imposition of the dominant Meitei language and culture in the school curriculum have further worsened the ethnic relationship. Consequently, the perceived sense of alienation by the tribal minorities in this sense has added to their sectarian aspirations and detachment from the state. Thus, through fieldwork and a review of literature, this paper presents the various discourses concerning the complex tussle over the control of resources and governance in the education system of Manipur.

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教育是曼尼普尔Nagas之间争论的场所：学校课程中的语言政治和文化主张

本文试图从曼尼普尔邦复杂的多民族关系和政治的角度来理解教育。由于纳加人、库奇人和梅特人之间在身份认同问题上的持续紧张关系，该州的教育仍然按照种族界线严重分裂。也就是说，作为少数民族的梅族，在优先考虑自己的身份和教育发展方面一直有系统的影响力，因为教育的控制权仍然在他们的范围内。随后关于在学校课程中强行使用占主导地位的梅特族语言和文化的索赔和反诉进一步恶化了民族关系。因此，在这个意义上，部落少数民族的异化感增加了他们的宗派愿望和与国家的分离。因此，通过实地调查和文献回顾，本文提出了关于曼尼普尔教育系统中资源控制和治理的复杂争论的各种话语。

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Asian Ethnicity PHYSIOLOGY-

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2.80

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6.20%

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期刊介绍： In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.