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Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understating of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking at the popular support and participation of ordinary people in the construction of Mizo nationalism, in short, the vernacularisation of nationalism. The book examines this process of vernacularisation at two levels, the first concerns the process of creating a vernacular language to express nationalist ideas and second, the irrepressibility of the oral against state's violent response to the nationalist movement. Drawing from multiple sources, the book through the rich oral narratives, archival materials, including government and media reports shows how Mizos have remained active agents in asserting and claiming their rights to defining ideas of nationalism in their own terms by making it distinctively Mizo.

Lushai (Asian people) --- Lushai language --- Nationalism --- Orality --- Rhetoric --- Politics and government. --- Political aspects --- Mizo National Front. --- India, Northeastern --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Psychoanalysis --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Dulien language --- Lukhai language --- Lusago language --- Lushei language --- Mizo language --- Sailau language --- Kuki-Chin languages --- Lūrhe (Asian people) --- Lūrhuiṅʻʺ (Asian people) --- Lushai (Indic people) --- Lushei (Asian people) --- Lusheis --- Mījui (Asian people) --- Mizo (Asian people) --- Chin (Southeast Asian people) --- Ethnology --- MNF (Mizo National Front)