“India is being remade. Once celebrated as a great pluralist success of decolonized nation building, many of its post-colonial benchmarks are being quickly reworked, erased, and made redundant. But if you watched India from Khasi-Jaintia Hills of its Northeast, you would have seen the glorious Indian story a bit askew.
For the last thirteen years, I have been trying to make sense of the idea of faith and identity and contestations around the questions of faith and nation-making amongst the Khasi-Jaintia people. Fourteen because in 2006, revival swept through these hills turning children into prophets. I have been travelling within the hills and the Welsh Calvinist Methodist Missionary Archives at Aberystwyth in Wales, examining the politics of identity-making.”
— Tarun Bhartiya
